Google Bookmarks

[hlmw]

Why do I have to sign in and give a password to get my bookmarks from
Google?
Is there any other way I can access them on my computer... are they
hidden away somewhere in a file?
Lorne

[Paul Blair]

hlmw wrote:

Why do I have to sign in and give a password to get my bookmarks from
Google?
Is there any other way I can access them on my computer... are they
hidden away somewhere in a file?
Lorne

Do a search for bookmarks.html

Probably in Documents and Settings/Your Name/Application
Data/Mozilla/Firefox etc

Paul

[Dave Hinz]

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:05:55 GMT, hlmw <[email protected]> wrote:

Why do I have to sign in and give a password to get my bookmarks from
Google?

Um, so they know whose bookmarks to send to your browser, maybe?

Is there any other way I can access them on my computer... are they
hidden away somewhere in a file?

No, they're on google's servers. If you want local bookmarks, use your
browser's bookmarks or favorites function.

[Robert M. Riches Jr.]

On 2006-11-02, hlmw <[email protected]> wrote:

Why do I have to sign in and give a password to get my bookmarks from
Google?

If the bookmarks you are referring to are stored on Google,
it would make sense that you need to identify yourself and
authenticate that you are who you say you are.

Is there any other way I can access them on my computer... are they
hidden away somewhere in a file?

You will likely get better help if you'd state what
operating system and browser you are using. If you're using
Firefox on GNU/Linux, the bookmarks file would probably be

$HOME/.mozilla/firefox/your-profile-name/bookmarks.html

with your actual profile name in the obvious place.

--
Robert Riches
[email protected]
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

[Denis Beauregard]

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:05:55 GMT, hlmw <[email protected]> wrote in
soc.genealogy.computing:

Why do I have to sign in and give a password to get my bookmarks from
Google?

Because you may use a public or shared computer.

Is there any other way I can access them on my computer... are they
hidden away somewhere in a file?

They are on the Google server.

If you always work from home, just don't use that feature...


Denis

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[Paul Blair]

Denis Beauregard wrote:

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:05:55 GMT, hlmw <[email protected]> wrote in
soc.genealogy.computing:

Why do I have to sign in and give a password to get my bookmarks from
Google?

Because you may use a public or shared computer.

Is there any other way I can access them on my computer... are they
hidden away somewhere in a file?

They are on the Google server.

If you always work from home, just don't use that feature...


Denis

Hey, that's a new one on me. I have never been asked to store anything
anywhere other than on this computer. And a search of all settings
reveals nothing like that, either! Tell me more...

Paul

[Kerry Raymond]

Hey, that's a new one on me. I have never been asked to store anything
anywhere other than on this computer. And a search of all settings reveals
nothing like that, either! Tell me more...

If you use Google Bookmarks (as distinct from the Bookmarks in IE or
Firefox), then they have to be stored on Google's site as the whole point is
to make them accessible to you no matter which computer you are using. A lot
of people prefer this as they then have the same set of bookmarks
everywhere, home, work, visiting family/friends, etc. Very popular with
people travelling or students using many different computers in the labs or
people who use public library computers. Google Bookmarks allows you to
instantly upload the ones stored in your browser (which is a very convenient
way to set it up).

But of course with so many users, Google can't work out whose bookmarks are
whose unless the user signs in. Of course, for most google use, nobody has
to create an account with Google and nobody has to sign in, but if you do,
then some extra benefits (like Google Bookmarks and some other
personalisation) become available.

If you really want to make your bookmarks available, use del.icio.us where
you can store your bookmarks and share them with others. If many delicious
users have bookmarked a page, then it's a very reliable sign that it has
useful and relevant information. I have both Google bookmarks and delicious
on my toolbar.

Having said that, being predominantly someone who shuttles between my home
and work laptops, I mostly use the browser's favourites locally (as my work
browsing interests are rather different from my home interests) and I
occasionally upload the browser bookmarks to Google Bookmarks for the
occasional access-from-elsewhere situations.

Of course, if your favourites include some eyebrow-raising sites, say,
hot-genealogy-chicks, then maybe you should keep your bookmarks locally!
But I think Google bookmarks is perfectly fine for publishing "my favourite
shipping lists" or "great cemetery sites I have found".

Kerry

[Paul Blair]

Kerry Raymond wrote:

Hey, that's a new one on me. I have never been asked to store anything
anywhere other than on this computer. And a search of all settings reveals
nothing like that, either! Tell me more...

If you use Google Bookmarks (as distinct from the Bookmarks in IE or
Firefox), then they have to be stored on Google's site as the whole point is
to make them accessible to you no matter which computer you are using. A lot
of people prefer this as they then have the same set of bookmarks
everywhere, home, work, visiting family/friends, etc. Very popular with
people travelling or students using many different computers in the labs or
people who use public library computers. Google Bookmarks allows you to
instantly upload the ones stored in your browser (which is a very convenient
way to set it up).

But of course with so many users, Google can't work out whose bookmarks are
whose unless the user signs in. Of course, for most google use, nobody has
to create an account with Google and nobody has to sign in, but if you do,
then some extra benefits (like Google Bookmarks and some other
personalisation) become available.

If you really want to make your bookmarks available, use del.icio.us where
you can store your bookmarks and share them with others. If many delicious
users have bookmarked a page, then it's a very reliable sign that it has
useful and relevant information. I have both Google bookmarks and delicious
on my toolbar.

Having said that, being predominantly someone who shuttles between my home
and work laptops, I mostly use the browser's favourites locally (as my work
browsing interests are rather different from my home interests) and I
occasionally upload the browser bookmarks to Google Bookmarks for the
occasional access-from-elsewhere situations.

Of course, if your favourites include some eyebrow-raising sites, say,
hot-genealogy-chicks, then maybe you should keep your bookmarks locally!
But I think Google bookmarks is perfectly fine for publishing "my favourite
shipping lists" or "great cemetery sites I have found".

Kerry

Ah....thanks

Paul

[Hugh Watkins]

Paul Blair wrote:

Denis Beauregard wrote:

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:05:55 GMT, hlmw <[email protected]> wrote in
soc.genealogy.computing:

Why do I have to sign in and give a password to get my bookmarks from
Google?


Because you may use a public or shared computer.

Is there any other way I can access them on my computer... are they
hidden away somewhere in a file?


They are on the Google server.

If you always work from home, just don't use that feature...


Denis


Hey, that's a new one on me. I have never been asked to store anything
anywhere other than on this computer. And a search of all settings
reveals nothing like that, either! Tell me more...

start by getting a google mail account

invite sent

it means when you change computers or ISP your stuff is always handy


Hugh W



--


family history
http://hughw36.blogspot.com

[Hugh Watkins]

Kerry Raymond wrote:

Hey, that's a new one on me. I have never been asked to store anything
anywhere other than on this computer. And a search of all settings reveals
nothing like that, either! Tell me more...


If you use Google Bookmarks (as distinct from the Bookmarks in IE or
Firefox), then they have to be stored on Google's site as the whole point is
to make them accessible to you no matter which computer you are using. A lot
of people prefer this as they then have the same set of bookmarks
everywhere, home, work, visiting family/friends, etc. Very popular with
people travelling or students using many different computers in the labs or
people who use public library computers. Google Bookmarks allows you to
instantly upload the ones stored in your browser (which is a very convenient
way to set it up).

But of course with so many users, Google can't work out whose bookmarks are
whose unless the user signs in. Of course, for most google use, nobody has
to create an account with Google and nobody has to sign in, but if you do,
then some extra benefits (like Google Bookmarks and some other
personalisation) become available.

If you really want to make your bookmarks available, use del.icio.us where
you can store your bookmarks and share them with others. If many delicious
users have bookmarked a page, then it's a very reliable sign that it has
useful and relevant information. I have both Google bookmarks and delicious
on my toolbar.

Having said that, being predominantly someone who shuttles between my home
and work laptops, I mostly use the browser's favourites locally (as my work
browsing interests are rather different from my home interests) and I
occasionally upload the browser bookmarks to Google Bookmarks for the
occasional access-from-elsewhere situations.

Of course, if your favourites include some eyebrow-raising sites, say,
hot-genealogy-chicks, then maybe you should keep your bookmarks locally!
But I think Google bookmarks is perfectly fine for publishing "my favourite
shipping lists" or "great cemetery sites I have found".

for my own vital links
eg
admin log ons
web mail
own web sites
web editors

I make a quick webpage in mozilla composer and set it up on my
current computer as the home page of all my browsers


I call it aaa_start_page to make it easy to spot

emailing acopy of it to myself in gmail as an atttachment means that I
have it available on library and other computers world wide

I keep my start page it in the shared folder between the MAC OS and the
virtual PC running WInXP Sp2 on Parallels (just upgraded today and
parallel tools reinstalled) on macOS 10.4.8 om dual core intel

so it is also in MS IE 7 so I can check the web pages on that browser
too for example

This idea goes back to netscape 3 or 4 favourites which were saved as
an html page on my machine and could also be set up as a home page
for netscape

Hugh W



--

new phone = new daily blog
http://upsrev622.blogspot.com/

family history
http://hughw36.blogspot.com

[Denis Beauregard]

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:48:01 +1100, Paul Blair <[email protected]>
wrote in soc.genealogy.computing:

Hey, that's a new one on me. I have never been asked to store anything
anywhere other than on this computer. And a search of all settings
reveals nothing like that, either! Tell me more...

With google, install the customized version. This will allow you
to install many new gizmos including the bookmarks but also the
history of google searches your made, some dictionaries, calendars,
news, to do lists, etc.


Denis

--
0 Denis Beauregard -
/\/ Les Français d'Amérique - http://www.francogene.com/genealogie-quebec/
|\ French in North America before 1721 - http://www.francogene.com/quebec-genealogy/
/ | Maintenant sur cédérom, début à 1765
oo oo Now on CD-ROM, beginning to 1765

[Charani]

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:53:49 +0000, Hugh Watkins wrote:

I make a quick webpage in mozilla composer and set it up on my
current computer as the home page of all my browsers


I call it aaa_start_page to make it easy to spot

emailing acopy of it to myself in gmail as an atttachment means that I
have it available on library and other computers world wide

They sound much better ways of having bookmarks to hand when you need
them.

I can remember the ones I use most often though.

[Hugh Watkins]

Charani wrote:

On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:53:49 +0000, Hugh Watkins wrote:


I make a quick webpage in mozilla composer and set it up on my
current computer as the home page of all my browsers


I call it aaa_start_page to make it easy to spot

emailing acopy of it to myself in gmail as an atttachment means that I
have it available on library and other computers world wide


They sound much better ways of having bookmarks to hand when you need
them.

I can remember the ones I use most often though.

I use auto fill on my own machines

eg
freebm . .

and a down arrow

Hugh W

--

new phone = new daily blog
http://upsrev622.blogspot.com/

family history
http://hughw36.blogspot.com