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Internet Explorer

Tips to manage browser bookmarks 98% effortlessly

In Firefox, Internet, Internet Explorer, Tip on 5 October 2007 with 1 comment

The less data (files) I have to worry about my computers, the better. Amazon S3 + JungleDisk work nightly, backing up the more crucial folders. Almost weekly, I synchronize everything to an external hard drive.

Bookmarks are a different story.

When it comes to saving awesome sites/pages on the internets, I use the following:

• del.icio.us
• Google Browser Sync
• AM-DeadLink

With del.icio.us, I currently have 568 items bookmarked, some of which aren’t being shared because I want to read them at a future date. (That’s a separate post, though.) However, the majority of them are reference items.

I use three different computers: home desktop, laptop, and work computer. To keep Firefox bookmarks synchronized between all of them, I’ve been using Google Browser Sync.

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.

If you don’t like being tied to Google, Foxmarks simply does bookmarks.

For those of you who keep a lot of bookmarks in Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Opera, do you know which ones still work?

AM-DeadLink takes the guessing out of that. Plus, it’s freeware - how cool is that?

So, why do you save all your bookmarks on your hard drive? Keep the ones you use most frequently in your toolbar, then save the rest to the web.

Repair IE 6 without WinXP CD?

In Asides, Internet Explorer, Windows XP on 31 March 2005 with 25 comments

Is there any way to repair Internet Explorer 6 in Windows XP without the Windows XP CD?

Secunia recommends users to drop IE

In Firefox, Internet Explorer on 10 January 2005 with 6 comments

Note: Sorry if I’m preaching to the choir (those who visit here regularly and already use Firefox), but I feel the need to keep pushing this. I’m just trying to prevent as much harm as possible to the people I and readers I care for.

In the case of this latest news item “IE Plagued by ‘Extremely Critical’ Flaws“, the last two statements stood out for me:

Security firm Secunia has released an advisory warning that the holes are “extremely critical” and recommends users dump IE and use an alternative browser.

“Although hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on securing SP2, perfection is impossible. Through the joint effort of Michael Evanchik and Paul from Greyhats Security a very critical vulnerability has been developed that can compromise a user’s system without the need for user interaction besides visiting the malicious page,” Secunia warned in a statement.

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