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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of browser synchronizers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date. Unless otherwise specified in footnotes, comparisons are based on the stable versions.

Contents 1 General 2 Operating system support 3 Syncable Browsers 4 Syncable Items 5 Features 6 Discontinued browser synchronizers 7 See also 8 References

[edit] General

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Client	Creator	Cost	Software license	FOSS	Homepage	Latest release
BookKit	BookKit Team	Free	Proprietary	No	[1]	1.0.2, 1.2.1
Bookmark Base	Bookmark Base team	$29.95	Proprietary	No	[2]	3.0.0.4
BookmarkSync	Jack Dean	Free	Proprietary	No	[3][4]	2.3.3(Windows) 1.0.4(Mac OS X)  (n/a)
Bookmark Sync and Sort	rhaebuster	Free	?	?	[5]	1.0.7
Chipmark	University of Minnesota Undergraduates	Free	GPL	Yes	[6]	3.3 Beta 2
Link Commander	Resort Labs	$29.95	Proprietary	No	[7]	4.2  (n/a)
Network Menus	Network Ltd.	Free	Proprietary	No	[8]	0.80
Opera Link	Opera Software	Free	Proprietary	No	[9]	Opera: 10.01  (2009-10-28; 13 days ago[1]) Opera Mini: 4.2.14912  (2009-08-03; 3 months ago) 5.0.15650  (2009-09-16; 55 days ago)
oSync	Henrik Olsson	Free	GPL	Yes	[10]	1.0.1
Portable Bookmarks	Resort Labs	$24.95	Proprietary	No	[11]	2.1  (2007-07-30; 2 years ago)
Power Favorites	Mark Stone	$19.95	Proprietary	No	[12]	1.0.0
SyncBookmarks	StellarFlare	$14.95	Proprietary	No	[13]	1.02
Weave	Mozilla Foundation	Free	Mozilla Public License	Yes	[14]	0.8  (2009-11-03; 7 days ago)
xbelSync	Tiberius Duluman	Free	GPL	Yes	[15]	0.7.5
Xmarks	Foxmarks LLC	Free	Proprietary	No	[16]	3.0.2(Firefox) 1.0.8(Internet Explorer) 0.0.30(Safari)  (2009-04-10; 6 months ago (Firefox) 2009-04-08; 6 months ago (IE) 2009-02-03; 9 months ago (Safari))
Zinkmo	Michael Hardy, Robert Senoff	Free	Proprietary	No	[17]	Beta
Client	Creator	Cost	Software license	FOSS	Homepage	Latest release

[edit] Operating system support

Client	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	Unix	other
BookKit	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Bookmark Base	Yes	No	No	No	No
BookmarkSync	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Bookmark Sync and Sort	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Chipmark	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Link Commander	Yes	No	No	No	No
Network Menus	Yes	No	No	No	No
Opera Link	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
oSync	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Portable Bookmarks	Yes	No	No	No	No
Power Favorites	Yes	No	No	No	No
SyncBookmarks	Yes	No	No	No	No
Weave	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	OpenSolaris[2], Windows mobile,FreeBSD[3]
xbelSync	Yes	No	No	No	No
Xmarks	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Zinkmo	Yes	No	No	No	No
Client	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	Unix	other

[edit] Syncable Browsers

Client	Internet Explorer	Mozilla Firefox	Opera	Safari	other
BookKit	Yes	Yes	No	No	Netscape Navigator
Bookmark Base	Yes	?	Yes	No	K-meleon, Maxthon, Seamonkey
BookmarkSync	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Seamonkey
Bookmark Sync and Sort	No	?	No	No	No
Chipmark	Yes	?	No	No	No
Link Commander	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Network Menus	Yes	?	No	No	No
Opera Link	No	No	Yes	No	Opera Mini, Opera Mobile
oSync	No	No	Yes	No	Opera Mini
Portable Bookmarks	Yes	?	Yes	No	?
Power Favorites	Yes	?	Yes	No	Google Chrome
SyncBookmarks	Yes	?	Yes	No	Seamonkey
Weave	No	Yes	No	No	Fennec[4]
xbelSync	Yes	?	Yes	No	?
Xmarks	Yes	Yes	No	Yes (Mac Only)	No
Zinkmo	Yes	?	No	No	No
Client	Internet Explorer	Mozilla Firefox	Opera	Safari	other

[edit] Syncable Items

Client	Bookmarks	Favicons	Browsing history	Form history	Web feed subscriptions	Search engine plugins	Passwords	Other
BookKit	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Bookmark Base	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
BookmarkSync	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Bookmark Sync and Sort	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Chipmark	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Link Commander	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Network Menus	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Opera Link	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Personal bar, speed dial, notes, typed browser history
oSync	Yes	No	?	?	?	?	?	?
Portable Bookmarks	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Power Favorites	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SyncBookmarks	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Weave	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	open tabs, personas, selected preferences
xbelSync	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Xmarks	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Zinkmo	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Client	Bookmarks	Favicons	Browsing history	Form history	Web feed subscriptions	Search engine plugins	Passwords	Other

[edit] Features

Client	Encrypted transfer	Encrypted storage	server changing	webbased UI	exporting	Link Verification	Duplicate Link Checker	Notes
BookKit	?	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-
Bookmark Base	?	Yes	?	?	XBEL	Yes	Yes	bookmark editor, different browser
BookmarkSync	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bookmark Sync and Sort	?	No	?	?	?	?	?
Chipmark	?	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Link Commander	?	No	?	?	XBEL	?	?
Network Menus	?	No	?	?	?	?	?
Opera Link	Yes[5]	?	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes (only webbased)
oSync	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Portable Bookmarks	?	Yes	?	?	XBEL	?	?
Power Favorites	?	Yes	?	?	XBEL	Yes	Yes
SyncBookmarks	?	No	?	?	XBEL	?	?
Weave	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?
xbelSync	?	No	?	?	XBEL	?	?
Xmarks	Yes[18]	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	server-side backup, restore of bookmarks
Zinkmo	?	No	?	Yes	?	Yes	Yes
Client	Encrypted transfer	Encrypted storage	server changing	webbased UI	exporting	Link Verification	Duplicate Link Checker	Notes

[edit] Discontinued browser synchronizers

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The following browser synchronizers have been reported to no longer work as intended with current browsers.

• Sourceforge BookmarkSync - Updated 2003.
• Bookmarks Synchronizer - Updated 2004.
• FavoriteSync - Synchronized both Internet Explorer favorites and Firefox bookmarks with each other and an outside server, but wasn't updated when Firefox 1.5 came out nor Internet Explorer 7.0.
• iSync - No longer supports Safari bookmarks.
• Google Browser Sync - No longer being actively developed and support will end for current versions at the end of 2008. Unavailable for download. It does not work with Firefox 3.

[edit] See also

• List of Firefox extensions

[edit] References