Besides maybe firebug/gmail notifier, I’ve come to rely on having my foxylicious extension installed in firefox for almost as long as I’ve been using the browser. Unlike the other del.icio.us extensions, this one doesn’t install a bunch of graphical “clutter” all over the place to perform the menial task of managing bookmarks. It lets firefox continue to handle bookmark management as per usual – with the added functionality of being able to add any given link/page to your del.icio.us account and have the plugin periodically sync your configured del.icio.us bookmarks folder with the handy http based del.icio.us api.
You can install it now for Firefox 3 only, but please keep in mind that;
- I don’t know what I’m doing.
- It will probably break or screw something up in your browser.
- I will probably not be hosting the extension install permanently from my site.
If that wasn’t enough to dissuade you then you can find the new 0.7.1 version below.
Again, this doesn’t support any firefox version less than 3.0 currently as that would require more work than I felt like investing initially. If it seems worthy of continuing to live after my butchering of Dietrich’s code then I’ll try and make it backwards compatible and submit it to whoever it needs to get submitted to to have it hosted by Mozilla instead.
On a side note, working with the XUL/javascript API has been pretty fun. Seems very similar to what adobe is trying to do with flex, minus the fancy/pretty vector graphics editor side of things. (From what I remember of friends like http://ducktyper.com working with it at least. On a more positive note, it probably doesn’t have all of the blatant IO retardedness that he talks about when working with flex/air either..in fact I think he’s abandoned the platform entirely and is going for a native cocoa app instead.)
Update(8/19/08): There have been many reports of broken functionality and a new update has finally been published to help with some of these problems.
Update (9/21/09): Updated version compatibility with latest FF, fixed add delicious bookmark dialog to correctly display page title / location.
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May 24th, 2008 at 3:07 am
I’ve been using http://www.foxmarks.com with great success for bookmark centralization with great success.
May 26th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Hi there,
you have done a great Job, I just synchronized my del.icio.us account with FireFox 3 RC1 – now I have got all my del.icio.us bookmarks in the FF3 places system – which I find to be very quick and convenient!!!
So thanks a lot for your efforts!
Jun 24th, 2008 at 6:28 am
I too have used this to get all my del.icio.us bookmarks, and can attest to its working order in Firefox 3 final. Haven’t had a single problem. Great job
Jul 10th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
YEY! This is seriously one of my favorite ways to sync del.icio.us to firefox. Thanks for updating it for FF3
Jul 16th, 2008 at 4:06 am
For me, there are no folders to choose from in the “folder location” box. Sadly, this means I’m still foxyliciousless…
Jul 16th, 2008 at 4:48 am
@Michael – Not to worry, I’ve heard that the original extension developer may have something up his sleeve for this in the works so keep an eye on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/342 for updates.
Jul 19th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
It doesn’t work for me…
It’s says “updated bookmarks” etc but the bookmarks in firefox didn’t flinch.
Jul 21st, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I’m having the same problem as Michael. It’s reassuring to know I’m not alone and that something will be coming up shortly. I really appreciated this add-on and I hope to use it again.
Jul 23rd, 2008 at 8:42 am
works like a champ! Thanks!
Jul 24th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Same problem as Michael, no folder location. Really appreciate this extension, be great to get it back in FF3. Thanks.
Jul 24th, 2008 at 5:08 am
@all
What platform do you not see a folder location on? I suppose I could probably fix that until the new release comes out.
Jul 24th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
@Jesse
I’m on Mac OSX Leopard
Jul 29th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Same for me on XP and Vista :
“Del.icio.us Folder Location” only entry is my personnal toolbar (“Barre personnelle” in my french version of FF3) ; impossible to set the delivery of downloaded bookmarks at the root of my “Bookmarks” FF3 menu
Other problem : after download, entries aren’t alphabetically sorted in FF3 bookmarks
Jul 30th, 2008 at 8:03 am
@Jesse: I am having the same issue as saxman and Michael. I am using OSX 10.4.
I can’t remember it off the top of my head, and I have uninstalled Foxylicious so I can’t check it this second, but I know it was throwing an error in the Firefax error console. I can check in and repost.
Jul 30th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Hi Jesse:
When Foxy loads, you get this error right off the bat:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsINavBookmarksService.getItemTitle]” nsresult: “0×80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://foxylicious/content/bookmarks.js :: anonymous :: line 678″ data: no]
and the Foxy interface shows up with no tree view. If you click in the area where the tree view should be, this error occurs:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE) [nsISupports.QueryInterface]” nsresult: “0×80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/places/tree.xml :: get_view :: line 35″ data: no]
Hope this is helpful. If you need me to test stuff, I am happy to do so. Thanks for all your work on this extension, it is one of my faves!
Jul 30th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Ditto here. Missing folders and sorting issues.
Jul 30th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I installed it in 3.0.1 and it sync’d once. I then set it to delete all bookmarks and sync’d again. All it did was delete all bookmarks. I can’t get it to reload them at all.
Any thoughts?
Jul 30th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
BTW- no messages in the error console, either
Aug 6th, 2008 at 6:33 am
Same problem as Michael, no folder location.
Using FF 3.0.1 on WinXP
Shame. Respect for giving it a try though, glad it’s working for some people.
Anyone know why the original extension author is not working on this?
Aug 8th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Not working at all for me either.
Aug 11th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I wonder how many of these issues are now caused by the change from del.icio.us to delicious.com? Not working at all for me, either. I had one machine that had most of my bookmarks, installed Foxmarks and I’m using that now.
I’ll check back here on occasion, but I’ve got to find something useful.
I appreciate the efforts in putting this together, too bad it’s no longer functional.
Aug 18th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Yes, I’m guessing too that this update has broken since yahoo changed the domain name. Very irritating since there’s no alternative.
Aug 18th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Sadly, I’ve transitioned to using builtin bookmarking + foxmarks. It works, but foxylicious + delicious complete worked better 4 me.
Aug 18th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Finished most of the fixes tonight. Will maybe post update tomorrow if work/life isn’t too hectic.
Aug 19th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
I still have the same problem: no folders to choose from in the “folder location” box. I’m on Mac OSX. I still appreciate your efforts very much.
Aug 19th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
@saxman789
I’m on os x as well using FF 3.0.1. What are you using?
Also, open about:config and set foxylicious.debug = true and then reload your browser and go to the menu labeled Tools -> Error Console and see if you find anything that mentions foxylicious and something possibly being wrong. (or just firebug console if you have that)
You can also email me at jkuhnert@gmail.com if you like.
Aug 20th, 2008 at 3:50 am
There’s one thing in the error console about foxylicious
Erreur : uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsINavBookmarksService.getItemTitle]” nsresult: “0×80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://foxylicious/content/bookmarks.js :: anonymous :: line 678″ data: no]
I don’t know whether that answers your question because I don’t know what you mean by about:config
Aug 20th, 2008 at 4:18 am
Oh, I’m also on 3.0.1
Aug 20th, 2008 at 4:51 am
I’m also still having the same problem on OS X with FF 3.0.1.
Aug 20th, 2008 at 4:55 am
Okay, I got it to work by starting with a fresh FF profile.
Aug 20th, 2008 at 5:15 am
@everyone
If you have any problems with the new update please try the new 0.7.2 link. I think it gets cached if it’s the same file name and updates don’t seem to be possible without making them “secure” or whatever. Should hopefully work better now.
Aug 20th, 2008 at 5:58 am
0.7.2 Works now on one of my computers — thank you.
My other still doesn’t display any Bookmark folders for a target (same issue as Den and Michael) so I’m still using foxmarks to update it.
Aug 20th, 2008 at 6:25 am
@JDR
What OS / FF version doesn’t work for you with 0.7.2 ?
Aug 20th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Sorry,
I’m using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.11
And don’t work 0.7.1 nor 0.7.2 …
Just the same that Michael: not Del.icio.us folder location to choose
Aug 20th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
@Jesse Kuhnert
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Thanks.
Aug 20th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
I worked around the missing folder location issue.
I went into about:config and set foxylicious.folderLocation to 3. This is my Bookmarks Toolbar folder.
Aug 20th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
YES !!!
Thanks JDR. I finally figured out what the hell this about:config is, and I used the same trick. I created a new folder inside the “personal toolbar” and foxylicious can see it and sync it.
Thanks to Jesse also. I’m so pleased to have this tool once again. I can’t thank you enough.
Aug 21st, 2008 at 5:16 am
@All
There will be another update soon. Have to play around with plugin on different OS / configurations to figure out what is happening with everyone else. (also need to make the add to delicious window an xul chrome form or something to get around the issue of having to log in all the time because of the authentication scheme yahoo has chosen)
Aug 24th, 2008 at 4:12 am
Works very nice, thanks a lot!
Aug 24th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Jesse, many thanks for this extensions.
Now, if only you could make it do the opposite as well.
Synchronize our FX3 bookmarks with delicious
Aug 25th, 2008 at 4:35 am
I got the following error. I only have about ~700 delicious bookmarks. Is there a way to space out the calls to api.del.icio.us ?
Delicious: https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all
Delicious: opening GET, https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all, false
Delicious: not async, and got http status code 503
Error: You have been throttled for making too many connections to del.icio.us. Please try again later.
Source file: chrome://foxylicious/content/common.js
Line: 76
– D
Aug 26th, 2008 at 3:33 am
I also found a problem where BookmarksWrapper.prototype.createBookmark can exceptioned out in the tagURL() call due to uri or the tag argument being null. I put a try/catch block around the call to tagURL() and the exception is gracefully skipped over.
– D
Sep 3rd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Hi, I am very interested by your extension, and I have some questions/suggestions.
First, do you plan to make a “real” syncing system? I mean, make your extension aware of new FF bookmarks, and send them to delicious. It is possible by making an observer with the nsINavBookmarkObserver interface; when it catch a new bookmark, we could send it.
Second, I have some delicious bookmarks that are urls for some livemarks, and I tag them “livemarks”. i think it would be interesting to import those bookmarks as livemarks in firefox, and not only as classical bookmarks.
Third, when I import bookmarks from delicious, they are dated at the date I imported them into FF, and not at the date showed in delicious. Do you think it would be possible to change this? I know this is not very important, but I’d like to be able to search my hundreds bookmarks by date (I found it interesting to see what were my preoccupations of the moments).
Fourth, can someone explain me why delicious, as well as all other bookmarks providers, didn’t do the things this way, instead of making a right new bookmarks system into FF?
Thank you for answering those questions. I like very much this extension, regards.
PS: I never made any extension, but I would be happy to learn how to make it if you need some help
Sep 12th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Hi,
I had found a error when tried to Add to Delicious using Firefox 3.0.1. Not checked in other browsers.
When I tried to add a bookmark to delicious the location and title did not worked. it came as http://%location% and title came as %title%.
I tried to work on tat and fixed tat issue.
You gave as
postURL.replace(/%user%/, username).
postURL.replace(/%location%/, encodeURIComponent(doc.location)).
postURL.replace(/%title%/, encodeURIComponent(doc.title));
I changed as:
postURL = postURL.replace(/%user%/, username);
postURL = postURL.replace(/%location%/, encodeURIComponent(doc.location));
postURL = postURL.replace(/%title%/, encodeURIComponent(doc.title));
Thanks,
Shankar
Sep 16th, 2008 at 2:03 am
What the heck? o.O
At first it was working perfectly. Then later I edited one of the tag and click on Update button again. It is not updated. So I tried full sync. Everything is gone. I tried reinstalling the extension. Can’t work.
I reinstalled Firefox. Redownloaded the extension. Worked 50% (only half the tags were imported). Reinstalled extension. Didn’t work.
What the heck?
Oct 23rd, 2008 at 10:11 am
Hi,
We are development a final proyect in La Laguna University, Spain.
It’s about a Firefox extension to automatic clustering of social
bookmarks like delicious.
We just emailed to Dietrich Ayale about make this new option to Foxylicious. Few days ago, we see that you developt Foxylicious for Firefox 3.x.x. We would like to know if you’ll work in the future developing Foxylicious.
Thanks.
Nov 5th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Yes, I’ve given up. It works for me occasionally, but something’s obviously not right.
I’ve moved on to the Delicious extension/toolbar. I use tag bundles to replicate my folders. It’s not as seamless an integration with my browser, but it works.
Aug 12th, 2009 at 11:00 am
What about FF 3.5.x ???
I’m using the newest version 3.5.2. and I can’t install Foxylicious due to version problems.