xBrowserSync xBrowserSync

Productivity
Version: 1.5.2
Last Update: 2020-04-09

User Reviews


avatar Dennis M.
2022-05-09

It was a great alternative to the now defunct Xmarks, but it has begun to cause a lot of trouble syncing between Chrome and Firefox, at least on Linux; removing duplicate bookmarks with other extensions makes xBrowserSync overwrite the cleaned-up local bookmarks with the "dirty" online bookmarks.
This process becomes unavoidable, memory-consuming (to the point of OOM, crashing both browsers), and has rendered the extension unusable for me, at the risk of losing previous bookmarks.

It was well once, and may be again, but this bug hasn't caught enough attention, and it should.
Kudos for the dev who came up with the idea, it's worth developing, and it's almost there.

avatar Dragon Repairman
2022-04-05

This extension isn't worth the time it took to write this review.

avatar Adam
2022-03-29

Sure you can find other ones that will take your data and all along with them. This is only one that is open source, no identifying info or anything. Just encryption key and sync chain

avatar Eric
2022-02-25

STAY FAR AWAY FROM THIS EXTENSION IF YOUR BOOKMARKS MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU. This extension utterly and completely destroyed my bookmarks in vivaldi. I DID NOT EVEN HAVE TIME to backup before it deleted everything and replaced it with a tiny fraction of what it used to be. I have been collecting tens of thousands of bookmarks over the past decade. WHERE ARE MY BOOKMARKS. If you do not help me restore them there will be some serious problems for you and your company. Now I have to waste my entire day trying to figure out how to clean up this utter mess. This extension author should not be allowed to create extensions dealing with people's valuable information. The author should be ashamed and should immediately remove this extension from the chrome store. This developer is a real liability for anyone who does anything valuable on their computer. I have reported this extension to Google requesting that it be immediately removed from the store. I will re-iterate again that I still expect you to help me restore my library, not just some empty "sorry you lost everything, must be your fault!" response, otherwise I will be personally "reaching out" to you on a regular basis until you do. I'll say this, if your extension manages to stay on the chrome store after my report (which I doubt), you should consider re-writing the entire thing so that it doesn't have any possibility of deleting people's information. How about that? That can't be too difficult, can it? If it is, then maybe you should leave this to another, more competent developer.

avatar Andre Kiwitz
2022-02-10

The sync worked fantastic and is very fast. Thanks for this extension. The only thing: the order of my bookmarks in the folders changed, so it took me a while to rearrange them but overall a great extension. Thank you for providing it!

avatar Johnny Nasello
2021-12-12

Couldn't find the same extension for Edge browse, which is what I wanted to sync to from Chrome.

avatar Lalo Martins
2021-11-11

Yes! This is the one! Finally after all these years I can sync painlessly and without fear between browsers and platforms. Big thanks to the team.

avatar Lee Adama
2021-10-03

On first inspection it seems to work fine, you don't find out that it's actually a buggy mess until later on when entire folders of bookmarks disappear. Try and put a bookmark into a folder in Chrome or Edge ? SYNC ERROR. OVER AND OVER. Jump over to firefox and do the same thing ? No problem. Jump back to Chrome/Edge and BOOM SYNC ERROR and the entire folder disappears. These SYNC ERRORS have been happening in various circumstances for YEARS. There are OPEN ISSUES going back to 2019 about it in the github. Maybe it would be ok if you don't use CHROME or EDGE it's not like they are the two most used browsers in the world or anything.... Oh, wait they are..... I've put up with the sync errors for years waiting for them to fix it but I just lost another folder of bookmarks and I'm DONE.

avatar 。,
2021-09-29

The best bookmarks sync application on phone and pc browser. It saves me a lot of time. Thank you! ???

avatar Miroslav Hrnčíř
2021-09-12

I am using it for only few weeks in Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Sometimes when I add new bookmark it duplicates all the bookmarks. Probaly because more than 1 Chrome is running on the PC. This happened already four time during these few weeks. I have to remove it. It brings me total mess in my bookmarks instead of synchronization :-(

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