Guess I'm Slow

Just found out about the Firefox "Live Bookmark" feature, and combined it with del.icio.us so my bookmarks will match on all my machines.  I suppose everybody else knew about this for years.

Comments

[greggman]

cool but I just use del.icio.us direclty. I don't use any browser's bookmarks. Then it doesn't matter what browser I use and I can search by tags etc.

[GBGames]

Actually, I remember downloading a new version of Firefox and seeing Live Bookmarks as one of the features. I didn't know what it was, but I had some time to waste so I clicked on it, and the entire world of blogs and news feeds opened up to me. I also finally figured out what the heck those RSS, ATOM, and XML icons were. Within maybe a week or two, I had to categorize my feeds by type or topic because I had so many. I've rarely used bookmarks in general before, but now I don't know how I can do without.

Now, del.icio.us on the other hand...I always hear about it, but I never stopped to look into exactly what it was. So I guess that's what I'll do today. B-)

[Robert 'Groby' Blum]

Welcome to Web2.0 ;)

One thing definitely worth trying with live bookmarks - set up an RSS feed of your build machine results or your check-ins, import through live bookmarks. Instant overview of what's going on right now.

[Christopher S. 'coldacid' Charabaruk]

Live Bookmarks are nice, but I still prefer the Sage extension for feeds.

[JeffL]

Dec 11th: Jamie posts about del.icio.us & Firefox.
Dec 12th: Yahoo buys del.icio.us
Dec 14th: del.icio.us experiences severe difficults, including site crashes & RSS feeds not working.

Dude, this is one powerful blog you've got here!

[JasonR]

It won't even let me sign up right now. :(

[Liam Hislop]

sooo... I learn about Live Bookmarks and then you don't update your site in 5 days... hehe j/k

[Jay Brewer]

WHAT? Thanks for finding this and I'm glad I'm late too.

[Jeffool]

Live bookmarking is great, but the addons for Firefox are well worth looking into if anyone hasn't done that yet. (There's a del.icio.us one too, actually: http://delicious.mozdev.org/ )

Beyond the obvious AdBlock/Filterset.G Updater combo I heartily recommend 'Download Sort', 'SessionSaver', and 'Forecastfox'. As the family 'computer guy' I've always thought people were crazy for installing weather plug-ins with tons of built-in spyware and crippling their machines. Now I see that there is a way to do it... And it's actually kinda cool.