Ed Mullen wrote:
On 4/3/2018 at 8:47 AM, Bill Spikowski created this epitome of digital genius:
J. Weaver Jr. wrote:
Bill Spikowski wrote:
For years I relied on the Sync feature in Seamonkey to keep my bookmarks the
same on several computers.
A couple of years ago, that stopped working for me, so I switched to a
commercial service called Xmarks, which worked just as well, and the fee was
modest.
Last year, Lastpass acquired Xmarks with big plans for folding it into
Lastpass, which I also use for passwords. But yesterday Lastpass made this
announcement:
On May 1, 2018, we will be shutting down Xmarks. Your account will
remain active until then. After this date, your bookmarks should
remain available in any previously accessed browser, but they will no
longer sync and your Xmarks account will be deactivated.
What other options are available for syncing bookmarks in Seamonkey?
As long as you're not using SM on more than one of those computers at the same
time, there's no reason why you can't move your SM profile (which includes the
bookmarks) to a cloud service, and then sync that folder on multiple computers
through the cloud service.
I currently have my SM profile on OneDrive, which both my desktop and laptop
are sync'd to. When I grab the laptop for a road trip, all my current bookmarks
(and emails!) are there; when I return home, everything I did on the road is
already on my desktop. -JW
I hadn't ever considered doing that; I see how it could work.
But I notice that Seamonkey sometimes doesn't shut down properly; a process is
still running in the background. I'd hardly even notice but when that happens,
the email module keeps downloading IMAP messages from the server, which means I
can't see new messages from my other computers. That's not really a big
problem, but I'm trying to imagine what might happen if my profile is located
on a cloud service and SM is still running on another computer...
I've never had to kill SM, never seen it refuse to close. It does sometimes
take 10 or 15 seconds to shut down as it's doing some housekeeping.
I suppose this problem could be related to my quite old profiles.
It happens most often on my office WinXP computer (an invisible SM process is
still running the next morning!), but it occasionally happens on two of my Win7
machines too.
Glad to hear this problem isn't widespread!
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