Social bookmarking service Del.icio.us has one of the more popular Firefox Add-ons, but until recently it didn’t sync with your account and bring bookmarks and tags to the browser. A few months ago they quietly released a new version that basically takes over the Firefox bookmarking function, but it wasn’t syncing fast enough for power users.
Today they’ve updated the Add-On, and they’ve solved the speed issue. If you are a del.icio.us user, this will become your most-used Firefox Add-ons. If you aren’t one of the 2 million people using Del.icio.us yet, this may be the reason you start. Download the Add-on here.
My biggest complaint about Del.icio.us over the last couple of years has been that it is often too slow. That led me to switch to Bluedot.us, a worthy competitor. But Del.icio.us has made significant speed improvements recently, and this new Add-on is incredibly useful. I’m back at Del.icio.us.
Currently Del.icio.us only allows bookmarks to be public or private. I’m hoping they’ll soon allow users to share bookmarks with friends only, which is sort of in between.
Thanks for the news Michael. I wasn’t a big fan of Del.ici.ous for speed reasons as well. I will give it a try now.
Funny, I stopped using Firefox because it was too damn slow. It will take more than a whizzy extension to bring me back.
I’ve tried to use del.icio.us several times, and never got into it. I have a feeling a lot of people, including me will stick to offline bookmarks. In my case, that means about 50 categorized text files.
I’ve been using Foxmarks to sync my bookmarks for a while, but thank goodness for this – this will let me check out my stuff from ANYWHERE not just the places I have a Firefox browser.
If you are on a Mac and you’ve switched from Firefox or if you have multiple del.icio.us accounts, check out Pukka.
There should be a quick mention that Flock has this built into it. I know some folks aren’t a fan of Flock but I’ve found the del.icio.us integration alone incredibly useful.
@Ilya: Have you tried the add on? I started using delicious before they released the add on. There was some other extension for firefox but it kind of sucked. I would bookmark here and there. But with their new extension it makes bookmarking so easy that I’ve easily increased my bookmarking by 10x.
The only thing slower than managing bookmarks with Del.icio.us is doing anything with Firefox.
Jaisen, yes, I’m running it now and it’s really good. Toddz, you should try it out. It’s very fast.
Mac users should checkout an optimized version of FireFox: http://www.beat...29/firefox-2002
Works like a charm for me. Been using it for a month or so.
great news but I always wanted saving to delicious by drag and drop. it works in a bundles view and bookmarks view but when you select tags view it does not sort them. I would like to see my tags as firefox bookmarks folders and would be great if I can drag and drop to that lets say folders for the link to be saved under that tag.
sorry, my english is very turkish:)
i was a del.icio.us user until i made the switch to ma.gnolia.com, and i never looked back.
as far as pukka goes, i’m still waiting for the ma-gnolia support that was talked about some time ago, but manage just great with their bookmarklet.
together with quicksilver integration, i have things working just fine.
@ Vaughn, Flock does not have “this” built in. Flock does integrate with del.icio.us, and it is helpful, but it’s nowhere near this smooth or flexible. The feature sets aren’t really comparable.
Also, I have a review I posted last week, with pictures if you want to peek before you install.
http://mrshl.vo...-bookmarks.html
I find this update a bit “bloated” … I like del.icio.us due to its simplicity. this adds a lot of junk and extra clicks to my browser…
Removing “Del.icio.us Bookmarks” extension
Re-installing “Del.icio.us” extension.
“Currently Del.icio.us only allows bookmarks to be public or private. I’m hoping they’ll soon allow users to share bookmarks with friends only, which is sort of in between.”
That is already possible. See:
http://del.icio.us/help/for
Sometimes I wonder if having del.icio.us is worth it. It gets so cluttered sometimes….
I’ve used Furl for a long time because I find delicious too user unfriendly. I also use foxmarks.
I’ve thought about getting rid of bookmarks entirely and only using an online tagging service, just haven’t implemented yet.
Anyone got advice on that? I use tagged pages for reference, and bookmarks for pages I hit all the time. Although, most of the pages I hit all of the time are either search engines or available via bloglines. I guess the only real need for bookmarks are sites that don’t have rss feeds.
I’m still surprised that del.icio.us doesn’t have good mobile support yet. A year ago I created http://mobilicio.us to access del.icio.us bookmarks from a mobile browser, and I really thought it would obsolete by now. (warning: it’s fairly buggy on old phones)
I think that Yahoo! has big mobile plans, which is pretty apparent from some of their current releases, but something as simple as listing your bookmarks in a format more friendly for phones (no header, navigation at the bottom) would go a long way.
Right, so today we have the del.icio.us extension and comparisons to flock (@mrshl I would argue that flock’s forthcoming 0.8 release is a lot closer, and I got as far as reading the word ‘toolbar’ and then went no further)
Yesterday we had coop which is similar to Flock’s people implementation that has been kicking about in danphe releases for a while. Tommorrow could be a flickr extension review, and then maybe finish up with scribefire and sage.
People, just download Flock, have it sat there all singing together nicely in one centrally supported browser, knowing that as it is based on Firefox you can still install all these extensions as well should you wish
I just installed this and here is a tip:
Add an integer preference under about:config named extensions.ybookmarks@yahoo.sharemode with value 1 if you want the default bookmarking option to be “do not share”
Woohoo! Truly synchronized bookmarks!
Love Delicious but was not happy a month ago when my FF bm’s were imported. I was a fresh install is something messed up. The funny thing about bookmarks is that I never go back to look at them once I bookmark.
@Ilya: del.icio.us is only really useful for mashing up with other services. I use it to build link dump posts for my blog, and I’ll be using it for some cool features in the future like notifying my RSS readers when a post is getting dugg, selecting one of my “best of” posts at random.
The biggest reason why I switched Favorites services is because Del.icio.us has such a horrible user interface. At least, the site now includes thumbnails (which took an eternity compared to many other services offering that in their UI). But overall, the color scheme and the harsh visual aesthetics drive me way each time that I return to the site. It’s really surprising that Yahoo which does an amazing job of developing user interfaces has let Del.icio.us go to the sidelines for so long after the acquisition. Hire a frickin’ designer!
del.icio.us is a good idea which blinklist.com does much, much better.
A note… this extension update forces you to import ALL of your current FF bookmarks into your Del.icio.us account, tho you can set them to “not shared”
I just spent about 10 minutes cleaning up my Del.icio.us bookmarks. Even though I set it to not share my FF bookmarks, I didn’t like seeing my router, web host panel and other various links thrown into Del.icio.us as well as all my keyword search links and other such things.
I’m sure the default Mozilla bookmarks (Firefox and Mozilla Links) will soon be the most bookmarked links on del.icio.us.
I also found the sidebar and button drop-down ‘cluttered’ my browser and I didn’t especially care for the layout. But that’s just my personal opinion.
Michael,
You said you wanted to share bookmarks with just friends but not everyone? Check out the Bookmarkr Module for Netvibes from myStafflink (http://www.mystafflink.com/) Can’t import from del.icio.us yet but soon.
I can’t tell the difference (after 30 seconds) with this update. I do love having my bookmarks available (in my browser) on all of my computers – home, work, mac, windows, linux.
I bailed on Flock a few months back just because of this extension.
I just use foxmarks, http://www.foxmarks.com/, perfect for syncing between my PCs… And fast
I’ve been using Google Browser Sync and it has been awesome. I use three different computers and now my psaswords and bookmarks are synced flawlessly. I use a bunch of other Google services…so this is perfect for me.
I’m always been a fan of Del.icio.us. I mostly use it together with stumbleupon, make it full of bookmarks
Latest Google Toolbar does it , and does it very well..
that thing is incredibly slow and everytime I click on my bookmark it disapears – why not just use avant browser with their online bookmark storage – you get all your bookmarks on any computer. avant does not have all the cool tagging and meta features but it’s not stupidly slow like delicious…
Sweet. I’m downloading the add-on as I type.
Update: I’m going to back to Foxmarks – this is a whole separate bookmarking thing, I want FIREFOX Bookmarks to sync with Del.icio.us bookmarks not Del.icio.us bookmarks to sync with Del.icio.us bookmarks in Firefox – that doesn’t help me much.
Hi, I am the same as Xell using Foxmarks and it’s really easy and fast to sync…
But maybe I should try Del.icio.us too…
I agree with others that Firefox is slow. Painfully slow. And in terms of stability feels like Windows 3.1 Visual Basic 3 programs from 1994, that feeling that the program is going to seize up and crash at any minute. To boot I don’t get why the UI has to look and feel so weird no matter whether it’s Windows or Mac, which is to say not native and generally shakey, again that VB3 experience. People put up with a lot using Firefox, and any complaints are disregarded as Microsoft fanboyism, so we’re right back to where we were with crappy Netscape 4 which never improved perhaps in part because nobody wanted to hear a negative word about holy holy Netscape. I like delicious integration in Firefox in theory. Not enough to put up with Firefox though. Currently Safari and Opera seem the only browsers — at least on Mac and Windows — worth using.
oh i hear the same old chorus of, let me guess, MAC USERS bitching about speed.
until vista came out, OSX was UNDENIABLY the worst performing consumer os, lagging even xp. vista lowered the bar enough for apple to squeak through. osx is also duking it out with xp and vista for least secure os
EXPENSIVE GARBAGE
i will happily put my celeron laptop with 256mb ram running freebsd head to head with any osx laptop available today
don’t blame firefox for your sucky os
oh and let me add you really have to be part of the inner circle of mac zombies to use safari. don’t even compare this piece of garbage to opera let alone firefox. you probably don’t even want to know how lacking it is compared to ie7 of all things.
I love the presumption that everyone actually cares about Delicious… “YOU WILL NOW”…
*BUZZ* Wrong. Let’s look behind the door, and see what you could have won…
if you guys want a fast way to sync your firefox bookmarks just use foxmarks… it is easily the best extension there is. i’ve tried del.icio.us and to be honest, it just plain sucks.
foxmarks is the way to go.
get it here: http://www.foxmarks.com/
peace
Del.icio.us is not a Foxmarks replacement or competitor. If you have 600 or 1000 bookmarks, Foxmarks just doesn’t make a lot of sense. Foxmarks can’t sort by tag. Foxmarks doesn’t allow you to share your bookmarks with others in your network. Foxmarks doesn’t let you make linkrolls using tags. Or publish feeds of your bookmarks via RSS.
I like Foxmarks. It’s a great product. But it is not a substitute for Del.icio.us.
What no I.E. support? do they have similar one for internet exploreR?
Simpy has had something much like this add-on for a little while, too – it’s called Smarky and can be had from http://www.simp...py-0.9.4-fx.xpi . It keeps your Firefox bookmarks in sync with Simpy, makes excellent use of tags to form dynamic tag-derived “folders”, supports drag and drop, has good in-browser search functionality (hit Home Home quickly and a search dialog that searches as you type pops up), and can also run the search against Simpy via its API…. there are a ton of other features. A long list of features and some screenshots can be seen at http://groups.g...om/group/smarky . People who use it love it.
Michael: You’re not alone. I hear people complain about del.icio.us speed a lot, too. Del.icio.us used to be listed in that left column on http://www.grabperf.com/ before, but now I realize I haven’t seen it there in a while. Have a look at this: http://blog.sim...cio-us-etc.html .
I love del.icio.us i have imported my bookmarks to blue dot.
Tried the Del.icio.us add-on awhile back and it destroyed my Foxmarked bookmarks. Found an older version that lets me tag pages and that’s as far as I’ll let it go now.
First time, shame on you. Second time, shame on me.
Foxmarks for me.
Hey Moron,
You can share links w/ just the people in your network.
It’s even provided w/ the plugin that you obviously know nothing about.
1. Mark it private.
2. tag it w/ “for:NetworkBuddyName”
3. Get a brain.
Idiot,
– Brian
I use del.icio.us on a daily basis, but I really don’t like the new Firefox extension at all, so I run the old extension on all of my machines. I use del.icio.us as a storage and retrieval bin for links, and I don’t like having it take over my bookmarks menu _and_ my bookmarks bar which I use to access pretty much everything.
That’s kind of moot though because I’m now using Camino as my primary browser, and the only option there is the bookmarklet- which does just what I want anyway.
That, and I added del.icio.us to the search box so I can search my bookmarks, and already I find it more useful and less invasive than the extension.
Ma.gnol.ia looks nice but I haven’t switched yet because del.icio.us is more ubuquitous and it does the job well enough for now. I’ve wound up with an unholy amount of tags, though, and no good way to manage them.