Firefox Sync

[Rohugh]

I have used XMarks to synchronize my bookmarks for a long time but with the latest Firefox updates it has stopped working with Aurora 14 although still fine with Fx 13b - and of course with Pale Moon. I realize that being an alpha version these things happen, but I was wondering about using Firefox Sync. I used it some time ago, in its early days, and found it unreliable and difficult to work with.

I am happy to continue with XMarks and not bother too much with sync to Aurora (I keep it to see what is being planned and implemented) but I guess I am asking for thoughts and possible recommendations on using Fx Sync.

[megaman]

Same here, I was having problems with it, that is why I put Sync aside.
I have the same problem with Nightly and Xmarks. For bookmarks, you can just export your bookmarks to an HTML file and import them in Aurora, but modifications might need to be amended back to the browser that Xmarks accepts, in order to merge/upload, your newly-made list.

[Rohugh]

Yeah, when you import from an HTML file it adds to those bookmarks already there, it then means time deleting the old ones. But yeah, a temporary solution.

[Moonchild]

You can also create a backup - in json format. if you restore that, it will remove all present bookmarks (and not merge them).
I don;t know if XMarks has changed their privacy policy lately, but I personally stayed away from them because of what was done with my bookmarks etc.

[Rohugh]

Thanks for that Moonchild - something I didn't know. Although the sync won't be automatic at least I can easily take the up to date bookmark list from PM and transfer them.

[Rohugh]

I have the same problem with Nightly and Xmarks.

As a note there is an update from Xmarks home page to change to v4.1.0 which works with Aurora. Don't know about Nightly though as I don't have it installed.

It does not work with Pale Moon - I tried and it just locked the browser and I lost all my bookmarks, reverting to v4.0.5 resolved the problem.