I use my own server for syncing bookmarks. I recently have upgraded to the latest foxmark. Now I keep getting this error: “Failed to parse server response”. Since then I downgraded to 2.1.0.12 but alas, the same. I wanna have my foxmarks get back to normal. Help me out please!

Right after I clicked on “Submit Comment”, I had an idea. I deleted the json file in my server, then from within foxmarks, I clicked on upload (instead of the usual syncronize now button). Voila! It works again. Just in case anybody else have the same problem.

the new one is really annoying!

Why does Foxmarks constantly ask me for my password? There is a “save password” box but it does not seem to work. It is annoying enough that if it does not stop, I will be un-installing it.

@jimbale: Is it Foxmarks asking for your password/PIN, or is it Firefox asking for your master password? Try each, if you have them all enabled, just in case. I find the dialogs are similar and sometimes confuse me when I’m asked.

I can’t use firefox at all any more. I even tried to install a 2… version. Nothing helps.
Please advice
Noël

I have the same problem. I am very satisfied with Firefox 3.0.3 and Foxmarks 2.5.3 on my laptop with Windows XP Profesionnal. However, it does not work any more on my home desktop, same versions now on Windows XP Home edition.

The only thing that worked was using the portable version of Firefox 3.0.3 and the installation of Foxmarks went great, except it is very slow from a USB stick. So then I tried making a virtual drive on my HD and installed the portable version of FF on it. It did not work either.

:(

@Antoonvdr : Why not run Portable Firefox from a standard folder? Thats what I do, and it works just fine. Also, remember, portable apps typically have the caching that makes things run faster turned off.

Man oh Man, have there been enough updates lately? It seems whenever I turn on a PC FM seems to be updating. From Portable FF, to the laptop, desktop and school machine.

I am waiting for the faucet to get turned off. FF and FM work great for me, without problem…..

First off, I love Foxmarks, and I love the new password functionality. Thanks guys.

Now, in 2.5 my custom server disappeared, in 2.53 it came back. But now it constantly, and I mean constantly (20-30 seconds) tells me that it’s detected a new version, do I want to merge or download.

I’ve used foxmarks on my own server for 2 years now. I’ve done a complete fresh upload from one machine, and then did a download to all the others, one concurrent browser at a time. I only have one browser open at time, doesn’t matter the box, linux, w2k, xp, vista, they all think there is a new version from another pc, even after downloading an overwrite, every 30 seconds.

Hope that is useful info, let me know if I can turn in anything else to help. :)

Thanks again.

i like the product, but i want MORE!!! To be specific, support for synching

prefs.js
permissions.sqlite
extensions

these are things i copy around with shell scripts now, crude but usable….

why the new foxmarks always asking password everytime i login thru https?.. i already click “never remember pass for this site”

Since installing 2.5.3, I have one computer that keeps losing info about random bookmarks. These bookmarks lose their associated favicon, and when selecting properties – absolutely nothing is displayed (just a blank title bar). I’ve tried rerunning the Setup Wizard and redownloading my bookmarks from the server and overwriting the local file, but it appears that the problem may be happening on the server side since this never works (or the corrupted bookmarks on the local machine are getting synced with the server before I can fix them). Instead, I have to run the Setup Wizard from another computer that isn’t messed up and overwrite the bookmarks on the server, then go back to the computer with the random blank bookmarks and run the Setup Wizard again and overwrite the local bookmarks. Then all is OK until some random point in the future, when I have to do it all over again. Frustrating to be sure.

I downloaded the new update.. this still hasn’t resolved my syncing issues. Luckily I only upgraded my one computer so it hasn’t affected anything at home? Are you still aware of these issues?

Foxmarks 2.5.3 synchronizes with everyone closes of Firefox. Even if one did not change.

last week i experienced some problems in my gentoo machine using firefox 2 and foxmarks 2.5.x – I’ve found two solutions;
1. Downgrade to the 2.1.x version
2. unmask some ebuilds to install the new firefox 3.0.3 and then the foxmarks 2.5.x works well !!

AAAAAAhhhhh, anybody know how to get foxmarks back. My computer finally updated but I am missing a ton of them… the last true sync was Oct 15/08 and I know that I saw all my foxmarks yesterday online. Can anybody help me!!!!!!!

I’m getting lots of synchronisation errors. At first it was error 12263, but now it just says error. The log shows me “Error is (new Number(2))
[2008-10-23 21:33:24] Synchronization failed. Error is (new Number(2))
[2008-10-23 21:33:24] Returned error: Synchronization error(4)
” Any ideas?

I’m getting a whole lot of errors too. Foxmarks seems to sync indefinitely, and when I run setup, I get something along the lines of “Foxmarks is busy”.

For me Foxmark runs perfectly for a while, I very much appreciate your hard work and your creative talents. I have a suggestion on a new feature of Foxmark.

Recently, there are so many “highlighter” or “marker” add-ons for Firefox. However, all lack the function of “syncing” with other firefoxes. I guess that this would be a great functionality.

Sincerely,

Shinichi

Woo Hoo! I have a solution to my disappearing bookmarks (on the Bookmarks Toolbar)!

I’ve been working on this for a while, and finally found what was causing the problem for me. I use a third-party utility at work to clear “residue” left by my browsers on a daily basis. The utility is call R-Wipe&Clean 8.0. I have narrowed it down to this utility being used to clear the History in Firefox 3.0.3. After it finishes, those bookmarks associated with sites I visited that day are “wiped” and if I don’t catch it soon enough – the wiped bookmarks get synced with the Foxmarks server, forcing the actions I mentioned in my previous post to fix the work computer.

I tried using Firefox’s “Clear Private Data” to see if it also caused the problem, but it did not. So it isn’t simply clearing your Browsing History that affects the bookmarks in this way. It would seem that the damage is limited to third-party utilities that perform this function. I haven’t tested any other utilities, but wonder if the other users experiencing this problem are also using such utilities to clear their History.

I can reproduce this problem every single time I run the latest version of R-Wipe&Clean 8.0 (http://www.r-wipe.com/) after exiting Firefox 3.0.3, so I’m certain that it is the only cause, and doubt that any other Add-ons are creating the problem (esp. since I have the same set of Add-ons installed on all the computers I’m using). Unfortunately for me, I’m required to run this program for security purposes, so I’ll have to “fix” my bookmarks as long as I continue to use Foxmarks (which is almost a necessity to me – I’m addicted to this awesome add-on!)

I hope this helps the developers to fix this problem which first appeared in Foxmarks 2.5.0 and remains in 2.5.3. This was never a problem with any version of Foxmarks prior to 2.5.0. Keep us posted!

Thanks!

I’m having problems with Foxmarks, it will keep trying to sync but never end. These are the errors from the javascript console:

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8057001c (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_JS_OBJECT) [nsINavBookmarksService.runInBatchMode]” nsresult: “0×8057001c (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_JS_OBJECT)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://foxmarks/content/foxmarks-places.js :: anonymous :: line 1024″ data: no]
Source File: chrome://foxmarks/content/foxmarks-places.js
Line: 1024

Uninstalling and reinstalling Foxmarks fixed it, but only for the first sync, after that it will hang again…
Using version 2.5.3 btw ;)
My laptop (XP and FF-303) works fine, this problem is only with my desktop running Vista and FF-3.0.3

I always used it without problems. But since the latest release it seems to block javascript functions e.g. signin and other if it’s activatetd.

Hi Guys,

I had to post here because I can’t seem to find the place to make a feature request for Foxmarks! Where is it ? Thanks a bunch.

Unfortunately the sync for the password don’t finish the synchronization the only message is:
synchronization error:
there is an unknown error
Sorry for any error I’m Italian

Please is very important to synchronize the password

@Bruno: Go here: http://www.getsatisfaction.com/foxmarks

On the right under the rating thingy there is a search box. You can use that to see if anyone has already thought of your idea. If they have, join in and express any thoughts or opinions you may have in addition to whatever they have thought; otherwise, click on the “share an idea” tab and type up what you have in mind.

@Foxmarks blog technician person: I believe a link to getsatisfaction would be helpful in allowing Foxmarks users to be able to find the site(as the post about it has sunk back in time to another page and there is currently no visible link–at least not on the blog). ;)

Thanks Nobu, I did what you told me to and found that the feature I was looking for / would have requested (the possibility to access a previous set of my bookmarks) was there all along: actually hidden in Tools / Restore

Still I think that the way to access it is awfully unintuitive. First I knew that there was this restoration tool but I figured it would only undo what has been done in the current sync session, or at most the previous one. I had no idea that all my sync sessions were logged and the basis for restore point.

What would be more convenient and I think more user-friendly is to directly show the restore points under a collective folder (”Restore points” or something along the line). And each restore point would show up as a folder per se whose name would be the date (and maybe time) of the syncing process. As showed on that image: http://wintour.free.fr/img/foxmarks-suggestion.png.
Although as you can see I haven’t yet created the collective folder for all restore points. And having Foxmarks to show my restore points like that was REALLY a pain in the ass!!!

Well anyway, should I submit that suggestion to getsatisfaction.com? Or can you get the message through to Foxmarkers? ;-)

Just my 2 cents…

@Bruno: I think it would be a good idea to submit it, so others can add their 2 cents as well, and it would be easier to track.

As far as getting the message to those at Foxmarks, alas, I am technically an outsider(I don’t work there, or even live in the area); I just try to help out here and there. I’m sure someone will see the conversation eventually though, and probably sooner if you post it there. ;)

Hi,

Thanks for all of your hard work!

I just installed Ubuntu 8.10 live on my Flash drive using usb-creator with r/w free space for the live user account. So, I’m able to install foxmarks and keep it up to date between reboots.

However, I would like to be able to download my bookmarks & passwords from your server (one way only). And to have Firefox clear everything when I stop firefox. If I restart firefox again then I would expect to re-enter my passwords to bring everything back down again.

However, this doesn’t work like I would like it to with passwords. After firefox clears all local passwords foxmarks doesn’t give me the option to re-download them again… It wants to delete them from the server #$^@^& No, NO, NO.

I just want to be able to bring down my account for a session after entering my passwords. Use my stuff for awhile. Then clear all information including passwords after that session close’s.

If I lose this flash drive. I don’t want anyone to beable to change or access my foxmarks stuff…

Thanks, again!

Bruce Hobson

Important glitch I’ve noticed that needs correcting — the other day Foxmarks must have been down because nothing was syncing from anywhere.

When this happened, the icon turned into a red question mark and the failure to sync automatically cleared ALL of my saved passwords. It wasn’t until the server connection came back and the sync was successful that they came back.

It appears that when a server connection goes down, Foxmarks will ’sync’ with nothing (no server connection) and therefore turn your saved passwords into nothing by clearing them out.

Please update your extension so as to show that it is compatible with Fx3.1b2pre because as fas as i tested it is fully compatible. The only thing that annoys me is the red background beneath its title in AioS.

I’ve used Foxmarks on my machines, great product!

Most recently, I put together a OSX86 machine (AKA Hackintosh) and foxmarks doesn’t seem to work. I was wondering why this would be? I install the add-in and when I click “run setup wizard” it does nothing. Further, when I click the link to “I Forgot my Username or password” it directs me to http://www.login.com which then gives me a 404.

Is this just the fact it’s a wacky hackintosh setup?

Great work again!

One thing I think that needs to be fixed is the repeated asking of my password when I open my browser. It’s a real pain in the butt. I don’t add bookmarks on a daily basis. There is no need for me to have to sign in to foxmarks every time I open my browser. It would be nice if I was able to sign in only when I think I need too.

Since updating to the newest version of foxmarks, foxmarks no longer works. Despite running foxmarks practically every day from my work computer, it hasn’t updated since Oct 27th (it works fine on my home computer). Any advise on how to get it working again?

Same here, foxmarks not working since 2.5 (all versions i tried)

Not syncing to custom server:
Heres the log:
[2008-11-11 15:22:28] —— Foxmarks/2.5.3 (/Places) starting sync with https://server/webspace/folder ——
[2008-11-11 15:22:28] Entered status…
[2008-11-11 15:22:28] >>> GET https://email@adress@server/webspace/folder
[2008-11-11 15:22:56] Warning: removeObserver failed.

I would really like to use foxmarks again. Great extension (when it works)

Foxmarks 2.5.3 is not compatible with Firefox 3.0.4 (according to add-ons panel in Firefox). ETA on a fix for this?

Haven’t been able to sync for days and days still. Is a fix coming? I am using 2.5.3. Thanks

why can’t i export my passwords too?