Xmarks (Discontinued)

Item: Xmarks (Discontinued)
Rating: 4
Author: Kelson Vibber

★★★★☆

Xmarks (originally Foxmarks) was a cross-browser bookmark sync service that I used for a long time to keep Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Safari on multiple computers using the same set of bookmarks. It almost shut down in 2010, but LastPass bought it and moved to a freemium model, which they kept running until May 1, 2018. By then it had been flaky for a while:

Anytime I came back to a system without using it for a while, it would have trouble syncing and have to re-download everything.
Sometimes it would get confused by the different folder layouts.
After Firefox dropped their old extension API, the new extension never worked well with my scheme that drops all cookies when I close the browser except those on sites I want to stay logged into.

These days I use Floccus to sync bookmarks across browsers, which has the added bonus that I get to choose my own storage.