Powermarks is completely useless now

louise

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Jun 25, 2008, 10:03:11 AM6/25/08

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I've been using Powermarks (Kaylon) as a bookmark search
utility through all of FF 2x and simply upgrading it by
force via nightly tester tools.

Well, version 3 isn't being "forced" anymore and the makers
of Powermarks have closed down any support for the program.

I am looking for a good bookmark search utility. I have a
lot of bookmarks and figuring out which folder I put
something in when I can only remember a keyword or two, is
practically impossible.

Can someone recommend a bookmark search add-on or utility of
some kind?

Thanks a lot.

Louise

David McRitchie

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Jun 25, 2008, 11:10:37 AM6/25/08

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"louise"

> Can someone recommend a bookmark search add-on or utility of
> some kind?

Hi Louise,
What version of Firefox are you using, sounds like you are using
Firefox 2 in which case
Enhanced Bookmark Search (EBS)
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/494/

Firefox 3 has some built-in features but they are not as good.
It would be nice if the author of EBS can and would update the
extension to work in Fx3.,

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David McRitchie, extensions I use are briefly documented on my site
Firefox Custom: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm

Ron Hunter

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Jun 25, 2008, 1:41:06 PM6/25/08

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You should investigate the searching abilities of FF3. You can search
on just about anything with the sqlite extension.

louise

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Jun 25, 2008, 11:32:23 PM6/25/08

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David McRitchie wrote:
> "louise"
>> Can someone recommend a bookmark search add-on or utility of some kind?
>
> Hi Louise,
> What version of Firefox are you using, sounds like you are using
> Firefox 2 in which case
> Enhanced Bookmark Search (EBS)
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/494/
> Firefox 3 has some built-in features but they are not as good.
> It would be nice if the author of EBS can and would update the
> extension to work in Fx3.,

Sorry, I should have said - I am using FF 3

Louise

Maikel

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Jun 27, 2008, 2:09:15 AM6/27/08

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louise wrote:
> I am looking for a good bookmark search utility. I have a
> lot of bookmarks and figuring out which folder I put
> something in when I can only remember a keyword or two, is
> practically impossible.
>
> Can someone recommend a bookmark search add-on or utility of
> some kind?
>

miTaggedMarks (www.mitaggedmarks.com) is an alternative to Powermarks.
It also uses keywords/tags instead of folders to organize the
bookmarks.
It also has a very fast find-as-you-type function that can search in
all bookmarks.
AFAIR it can even import the bookmarks from Powermarks including the
keywords.

Michael

louise

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Jul 4, 2008, 2:25:04 AM7/4/08

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This is an interesting program and might be worth
purchasing. The only thing that comes close to Powermarks.

At first glance/use, however, it seems to be trying to do so
many things that it is very confusing. It would be great if
they created a video tutorial.

However, at the moment I've got it on a trial version and
maybe I'll figure out all the extras and maybe I'll just use
its more basic functions.

For those who want to back up their bookmarks onto a server,
this program does not do what Powermarks did and it doesn't
seem that would be possible.

Louise