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Cross-browser bookmarks syncing

Many of us use several different browsers through-out the day. You might use IE at the office, Safari on your Mac and Firefox on your Linux machine. Keeping track of bookmarks and making sure all your browsers remain synced can be a real pain. I recently tried using an application called BookDog which attempts to keep your bookmarks (between Safari and Firefox) synced on the same machine.

While it did manage to sync my bookmarks, the process and menus were confusing. This is also the kind of task you don't want to do manually or have to deal with.

Now I think I have finally found a good solution. Xmarks.com (formerly known as Foxmarks) is a free service that keeps IE, Safari and Firefox synced. I have been using it for around 3-4 weeks now and am very happy with the results.

Here's how it works:

1. Sign up a free account
2. Install the xmarks plugin for Firefox, IE or Safari (or all three). The plugins have to be installed per browsers, so you will have to visit the website with the browsers you would like to keep in sync and install the plugin.

That's it. From now on Xmarks will periodically sync all your browsers, so that when you launch them, you will immediately have links added in a different browsers during a different surfing session.

A word of advice however, by default your bookmarks are "public", which means they will be added to Xmarks.com's database of searchable browsers. Don't worry though, first of all links will only appear enough Xmarks users have them, and, you in your user account settings you can choose to keep your bookmarks private and not share them with the Xmarks community.

Do you know of any other easy to use services that sync bookmarks between different browsers?