[X-Apps] Safari, IE, bookmarks, frustration...

[Dan Frakes]

John Pariseau <simplymail at ururk.com> wrote:
> Are there any good shareware programs to synchronize bookmarks between
> browsers, or is the best way by hand?

You really have two options. The first is to use a "universal" bookmark
utility such as URL Manager Pro. I've been a user of UMP for years, and it's
a great utility. I've had a few problems with it under OS X, but many other
people have been perfectly happy with it.

The second option is a synchronization utility. Bookit
<http://www.everydaysoftware.net/bookit/> is my favorite. When you run
Bookit it gives you a list of all your browsers' bookmarks; you choose one
as your "main" file, and tell it which others you want to synchronize with
the main file. It then gives you a list of all the bookmarks in other
browsers that don't exist in your main file. You choose which ones to
synchronize (or you can synchronize all of them). Finally, you can choose
whether to write your new "master" set of bookmarks to each of the other
browsers' bookmarks. (This sounds like a lot of steps, but it's really very
easy.) Bookit also lets you use a Dockling or menu to access your "master"
bookmarks file, much like URL Manager Pro.

The main differences between URL Manager Pro and Bookit are that with UMP,
you add bookmarks to, and access bookmarks from, a universal shared
bookmarks file, whereas with Bookit you use each browser's own
bookmarks/favorites menu. With Bookit, since you're using each browser's own
bookmarks, you have to periodically synchronize your bookmarks between
browsers.

It looks like either of this solve your problem.


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