I would just use the Firefox 3 beta.  It goes well with the Leopard interface and is a much better browser (faster, smoother, all that jazz).

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

gnome wrote:

For Safari, you might want to check this out:http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? … 9135209367

It's not a great implementation, though, from what I can see. If I used Google Bookmarks, I would probably tweak it myself, but it seems kinda pointless, frankly.

Not to start a flamewar, because each browser has its merits, but Safari is a lot more Mac-like (native Cocoa) and faster (particularly with the new developer beta, which is lightning fast). I would recommend it over Firefox, if just because Safari is fun to use. Hyatt is a genius. But Firefox has its merits too, and I don't want to get into that. My point is, if I were in your shoes, I would try to make Safari work, because it is amazing.

I'll try Camino because it realy looks promising. Do you think you can tweak that workflow script ? I'am lost without my bookmarks :-)

For kicks, I'm writing you a SIMBL plugin that adds a Google Bookmarks menu to Safari.

It's not too hard, and its a fun exercise.

It should be done by tomorrow--or maybe that's optimistic.

There. I just programmed it. I call it "Goggles", because it lets you see/quickly use your Google Bookmarks in Safari, and it sounds like Google.


SCREENSHOT, NOT MOCKUP

Almost fully functional. My code SUCKS. A lot of stuff is hardcoded in. I'll fix that, add niceties, maybe get rid of the separate menu. Then I will release it to the world.

If anyone wants to make a spiffy icon of Goggles, I'll give you mad credit in the about window.

Last edited by gnome (Jun 13, 2008 1:42 am)

Google discontinued its support for the Google Bookmark Browser Syncing today, actually.  Not sure if that will stop syncing altogether but there is no more official support for it and the Firefox extension won't be made compatible with Firefox 3.

Also, if you do use Firefox 3 head over to http://takebacktheweb.org and use what Firefox should look like on OS X and forget all about damned Proto.  I am still pissed off with how they ruined that skin after it was adopted in the second beta.  (I had been using it since Firefox 3 Alpha)

@gnome Hey, you know that you are my hero ? I'am using Safari and your plugin is completly going to help me A LOT. Great job, fantastic plugin and well, you are the one for me

gnome : i dont have the "synchronize..." in preferences. When i finish install it ask me to configure but there is nothing (i have a french version for the record)

ok its working now (i dont care about having the bookmark settings panel in english :p)
anyway, its synchronizing but i dont have all of them, actualy only 25 shows up and not sorted by folder

OK, sorry for double-posting, but I think this deserves a bump given how long I've been working on it...
http://www.gnomepi.com/random/GogglesB2.dmg

This version has all of the fixes I mentioned above--and also, it no longer uses the username/password from the Bookmarks panel, but instead uses the currently logged in Google user.

I hope you like it. I will add a few more features (sorting, tag excluding, etc.) and then release on MacUpdate.

working perfecty, thats a huge plugin. very very nice awesome work congrats ! defitinitvely a MUST HAVE plugin. I propose you to shoot an email over lifehackerthey might be intrested in that great plugin.

It's awesome. Thx for your great work.

Could you add the "Quick Bookmark Search" feature to your bundle? like pop up a quick search pop-up box after pressing a shortcut key, e.g. press "Home" key twice..

I use Safari, you would have to be genuinely mental to suffer using the Mac version of Firefox, its quite frankly a pile of garbage and no number of hacked together memory hog extensions will change that