Foxmarks bookmark export -- Del.icio.us?

I never blogged about Foxmarks... probably because what I use for bookmarks hasn't really been too important. I don't surf the web much, but rather, I use a web browser to look at things I get from some other source, like e-mail. So, I don't really keep track of my surfing habits. For the places I do visit frequently, I just use my memory, or a bookmark in my browser of choice... Mozilla Firefox.

Of course, I like to keep up with what's going on in the browser scene. Opera has been a good option for me to try, and when I was in my Mac phase, Safari was coming along well, and apparently is even better now. Even Internet Explorer is sucking much less these days. I'm not a website developer, so I don't go around testing each browser's rendering functionality. When I've written on-line help that uses a browser for display, I've depended on a toolkit or template to make sure I'm compliant with the target platform.

So, using Firefox, I chose Foxmarks, and I've been happy with it, except for one thing -- not having the ability to get my bookmarks when I'm not using Firefox. When might this happen? Well, say I'm at work, where I don't want to install a new browser on my office box... (I would, but you know... it's not mine, and the company that actually owns the laptop might not approve of me just mucking around with browsers and such...) True, I can use the My Foxmarks website, and it is great, but it didn't have an export feature. So to "get" my bookmarks, I'd have to install Firefox and then the Foxmarks extension, and sync. Yeah, I did that about zero times.

The new addition to My Foxmarks changes all that.

So, rather than logging into My Foxmarks, to get that link to whatever inappropriate site I needed to look at while at work. I can just export my bookmarks and import them into Internet Explorer 6 on my laptop... right?

Okay, that seemed to work.

I almost quit using Firefox once, and consequently looked for another way of doing my unimportant bookmarks, other than just importing and exporting from the native browser menu and saving the file somewhere publicly accessible, like the personal WebDAV space from my FastMail account. It appears that that Delicous thing is a good implementation, but I don't care for the social aspect. I'm not looking for more places to waste time on the Internet. I just want to get to the places I can't commit to memory.

I'll take a look at Delicous some time later, when I don't have stuff to do at work, or at least choose to not put it off so I can write a quick e-mail to my blog. For now Foxmarks has given me the key to not using the service, which must mean it is good enough that I'll not want to stop using it.