Del.icio.us in FireFox 2.0

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As I've posted before, del.icio.us fills a need for me to "mini-blog".  It's never been useful to me as a bookmark service, and this was due to the lack of tight integration with the browser.  I installed the del.icio.us extension for FireFox 1.5 and the only useful feature was the "tag" button to quickly tag sites.  Well, I'm posting this to say tonight things changed.

As I had not yet installed the del.icio.us toolbar in FireFox 2.0 on my home system, I went looking for the download.  I was about to go to the FireFox extension site when I saw "Get Bookmark Add-ons" in my bookmarks.  This bookmark must only be present on a new install because it's not on my laptop's upgrade version.  If you don't have the link, go to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3615/ directly.

This newer version replaces the bookmark manager in FireFox 2.0 with a del.icio.us version.  A nifty new bookmark search sidebar is loaded, and the bookmark toolbar is connected to your del.icio.us account.  In the old version, clicking the del.icio.us button used to take you to your del.icio.us webpage - something that just wasted space IMHO.  The new version of the button present a fly-out search that's a mini version of the sidebar.  The bookmark menu is updated as well, with folders for your tags and recently added links.  The links for you is still just a link to del.icio.us, hopefully we'll see an upgrade soon that builds that ties that feature to the browser interface.

There is a good deal of options to play with, so I encourage anyone using del.icio.us check out this new add-on.
by Mike
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:p Dec 5, 2006 6:43 AM

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On Dec 5, 2006 8:35 PM Perry said...
A word of caution, if I may.

Recently a friend asked me about what I used in Firefox to bookmark to del.icio.us and, after searching, he indicated to me that he had found this addon. I installed it, thinking it sounded cool, but found afterwards that instead of the neatly organized bookmarks I had in FF, I had, instead, the over 700 del.icio.us bookmarks. I uninstalled it immediately, but made the wrong choice in answering the dialog upon uninstalling it and ended up with those same 700+ bookmarks in my version of Firefox. Not cool! It took a system restore to get things back to normal.

Sure, I could search them using the tools in that addon, but for my use, I prefer the so-called "classic" bookmark widget on my bookmark toolbar. I don't, as you do, see visiting my del.icio.us page as a waste of time.

More elegant still than this addon is Flock's integration with del.icio.us, coupled with it's ability to create "collections," which is still the feature of Flock that I most appreciate.
On Dec 6, 2006 12:06 AM Mike said...
The del.icio.us homepage is not a waste of time, but having a button that is really just a fancy bookmark is - I could just as easily bookmark the del.icio.us site.

I don't use "classic" bookmarks at all anymore, my newsreader fills that need. So in that sense I'm not replacing a feature I used before, and that's probably a reason why I don't mind having all those links loaded =p The search tags / links works for me.

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