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For anyone that spends a lot of time on the web, your bookmarks is almost like a personal phonebook.  The habit of organizing and bookmarking sites you find to be interesting or informational is a great practice.  Until I actually made it a habit, I never realized how many sites I forget about.  I have my bookmarks organized into several categories and bookmark anytime I find a nice site.

The problem then becomes how to save these bookmarks between computers.  I bookmark a site at home, but don’t have the same bookmark at work.  Several extensions have become available to try to help you save your bookmarks, but no service has stood the test of time.  Now Google provides the best hope for the future of bookmarking, Google Browser Sync.

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.

Basically, you install this Firefox extension from Google, and it uploads your bookmarks to their server.  When you log in to another browser with the same extension, your bookmarks are automatically updated.  Comes in very handy if you need to keep two different computers in sync, or if you lose your bookmarks on your current computer.

If you don’t use Firefox, here are some of the best web sites for keeping your bookmarks all online:

Blummy.com

Furl.com

Spurl.com