Re: myportal w/o galeon

on Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 08:33:32PM -0500, Ken Mankoff ([email protected]) wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I used to be a Linux + galeon user, and I miss the myportal feature. I
> now use FireBird + OS X. I know I could install galeon, but I don't
> have gnome at all, and would rather not. But I do miss the myportal
> feature... I would like to be able to keep it as my homepage, or
> publish it so I have access to my bookmarks even when I am at other
> computers.
> 
> Is it possible to get the myportal feature without an entire galeon
> installation?

My recommendation would be that browsers work on a standard bookmarks
utility allowing external bookmarks which can be managed by an arbitrary
browser.  There was a recent SVLUG discussion on this, some of the
recommendations:

From James Sparenberg:

    Couple of extensions (Moz/Firefox) that might help out.

    Bookmark sync tool *local*
    http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=1366&hl=bookmarks

    Bookmarks sync tool *ftp*
    http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=15&hl=bookmarks

    Bookmarks backup tool
    http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=13&hl=bookmarks

From J C Lawrence:

    There's an extension for Firefox to keep and maintain the bookmarks
    on a thirdparty machine via WevbDav.

From Roland Krause:

    http://del.icio.us


Really what you want is some sort of bookmarks server with a publish /
edit capability.


Peace.

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