So, like many of you, I’ve finally switched to Google Chrome as my web browser of choice (It has finally reached Default Browser status.) I still use Firefox for web development since Chrome lacks a lot of the tools I use day-to-day (Thanks firebug,) but the speed and usability of Chrome finally won me over.
Other than my development tools, the only other Add-on that I really miss is my trusty Del.icio.us Bookmark bar. It is great to have immediate access to my bookmarks in Firefox with tag support. To help remedy this situation I started to look at what options I have for accessing my Del.icio.us bookmarks from Chrome. You can do the obvious and just access them from http://delicious.com/, but that’s boring.
The 2nd option is to use bookmarklets. You can add these to any browser and they are basically bookmarks that give you access to your bookmarks. Not as good as a direct bookmark bar, but better than browsing there yourself 100 times a day. You can even get delicious bookmarklets that make it easy to pop-up the “Save bookmark” screen for the current page you’re on to add new bookmarks. Read about delicious bookmarklets..
The 3rd option (and the one I’m actually trying out.) Convert to Google Bookmarks. Unlike delicious, google bookmarks keeps your bookmarks private and makes them and their contents searchable. You can manage your bookmarks from the site or using Google toolbar. You can also manage them in Firefox using Add-ons. For users of iGoogle (Google’s home/startup pages), you can also get a Google Bookmarks Gadget that lets you interact with your bookmarks.
The next question is how to get ALL of your precious bookmarks out of Del.icio.us and into Google Bookmarks. Well, that’s easier than you might think. Mihai Parparita from Google has created a script that will import all of your Delicious bookmarks into Google Bookmarks automatically. You can perform the import at http://persistent.info/delicious2google or read more on their site..
You can also use a Google Bookmarks bookmarklet.
Does anyone else have a better solution for managing and accessing your bookmarks from Chrome?
6 comments:
I use Cocoalicious.. It's worked good for me, but you kinda need a Mac to use it ;)
Cocoalicious looks cool... All except for the Mac part. =)
hey paul
is it possible to import your delicious into the new chrome/google bookmarks sync - which is stored in your google docs ?
cheers
justin
Good question Justin, but unfortunately not something I can answer. I did a bit of quick poking around and wasn't able to find anything. Sorry, wish I could be of more help...
thanks for the update
if you do happen to get it working with google docs would be very very usefull to alot of people
that way you can access you delicious bookmarks using the builtin manager and address bar when search
cheers
justin
Hi guys
Does anyone know why I cannot access the delicious2google site?
Im starting to use Chrome and want to import my delishh bookmarks, but cant seem to open the site.
help.
J
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