I’ve been using Xmarks for years now, and we just received announcement that it’s going to be stopped next month.
Instead of complaining, I thought that it is the opportunity to switch to Owncloud/Bookmark : privacy and data ownership has always been of my concern (and the Xmarks Cloud had always been a pain to me, so…)
But I need a solution that works like Xmarks did:
add-on for FF/Chrome (optionally IE) that sync embedded bookmarks with a central repository
I found a potential solution within OwnCloud (topic #2 above) : Bookmark, kindly back-ported by Stefan Klemm aka @ganomi (ganomi · GitHub)… but in version 0.10.2
So: what are the options ?
is Bookmark 0.11 back-ported to OwnCloud going to answer the need of working with Floccus add-on (key question !) ?
if it does, is there anyone going to back-port Bookmark from NextCloud to OwnCloud (@ganomi or somebody else ?)
is there any other solution to replace Xmarks fonctionality ?
But of course, there would be a huge amount of work to be done, and as usual almost no chance the get real help and/or support from the developer. Why should he backport his current app to oC, if he’s working at nextcloud now?
Unfortunately, this is not really “doing that”.
It allows to store bookmarks in your owncloud, via a bookmarklet.
But your browser bookmarks are not concerned.
I was more looking for something like Xmarks -under decommissioning- (or Eversync that I installed meanwhile) : you naturally use your bookmarks within your browser (FF or anything else), and the Cloud is simply used as a repository to sync all your browser instances bookmark DBs. An add-on in the browser being used to keep this local DB synced with your central repository…
I hope we will have a solution someday, that will take benefice of OC bookmarks, while allowing embedded usage of browser bookmarks DB.
Hum…
I’m not EverSync expert : I’m just starting using it.
Nevertheless, according to documentation, “private” notion is about setting a flag on bookmarks for them not to be visible to plugin API => only to be managed in the web interface… And I didn’t see any quota on them (only on “archives”)
Anyway, this is just another argument for using a real private Cloud : my own cloud on my OwnCloud instance… But how ?
I came across another very interesting solution for the bookmark problem, named ymarks. Unfortunately, it is not suitable for ownCloud out of the box, as it has an own server component.
However, IMHO it’s a reasonable starting point for an own solution.
