A extensão Xmarks, antigamente chamada Foxmarks, que é um sincronizador de favoritos para o Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome e Safari vai terminar.

The End

By Spring 2010, with money running tight and options fading, we started searching for potential buyers of the company. Over the past three months, we have been remarkably close to striking a deal, only to have the potential buyer get cold feet. We also considered refocusing Xmarks as a freemium sync business, but the prospects there are grim too: with the emergence of competent sync features built in to Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, its hard to see users paying for a service that they can now get for free. For four years we have offered the synchronization service for no charge, predicated on the hypothesis that a business model would emerge to support the free service. With that investment thesis thwarted, there is no way to pay expenses, primarily salary and hosting costs. Without the resources to keep the service going, we must shut it down. Our plan is to keep the service running for another 90+ days, after which the plug will be pulled.

Esta era uma das extensões mais populares do firefox e eu já a usava há um ou dois anos e dava um jeitaço para quem tem o computador do trabalho e outro em casa, temos sempre o mesmo conteúdo no browser.

Então mudei agora para o Firefox Sync e parece estar a funcionar bem. Não sei se ao desligar o firefox, no caso de haver coisas para sincronizar, ele sincroniza pois ainda não me perguntou nada mas o Xmarks fazia isso e era porreiro, para ir sempre com tudo actualizadinho de um computador para outro.