New updates for the Delicious Bookmarks Internet Explorer and Firefox add-ons have been released. Our add-ons engineering team has been hard at work implementing new features and fixing bugs informed by your bug reports and feature requests. Many thanks go out to those users on our Forums who provided lots of feedback after downloading the beta versions of the extensions.
The Firefox add-on has received a major behind-the-scenes change as we moved from using RDF to SQLite for storing the bookmarks. This means that the add-on is faster and more stable, especially for users with large accounts. It has been updated to work with Firefox 3.1 Beta and now works on Firefox 2.0-3.1b1 on Windows, Mac, and most Linux distributions that support Firefox.
The Internet Explorer add-on has been updated to resolve some login issues that resulted in bookmarks not syncing properly and other login related weirdness. It currently works on Windows XP and Vista with IE 6, 7, and 8 (though while IE 8 is still in beta there may be some issues).
Both of the add-ons have had a new feature added that allows you to change or disable the keyboard shortcuts. This means no more conflicting keyboard shortcuts or difficulties trying to change the shortcuts if you don’t want them. Updates have also been made to improve the search, favorite tags, and sorting features.
We love getting feedback about the add-ons and have some cool new features planned for development over the next year, so join in on the conversation in our forums.
Jared Elson
Product Manager, Delicious
December 5th, 2008
Last night, we pushed an upgrade to our Firefox extension via addons.mozilla.org. Because we tweaked and improved lots of things, upgrading triggers a full download of your bookmarks from del.icio.us. Normally this process takes seconds and is practically invisible but the load on our servers were much greater than we expected and they melted as a result.
We’ve unmelted the servers so those of you with missing bookmarks in your del.icio.us Bookmarks extension should be seeing them soon, as the issue will resolve itself. If you need immediate access to your bookmarks, go to Tools -> Options in Firefox, click the del.icio.us tab, and click “Sync Now”. Otherwise, our servers and I would appreciate it if you waited, it should take no more than a few minutes for your extension to automatically grab your bookmarks now that we are up again.
Thanks for your patience and sorry about any problems this may have caused.
Nick Nguyen
Product Manager, del.icio.us
February 21st, 2007
After much effort, we’ve finally released our official Firefox extension which supports Firefox 1.0.7+ and up.
Highlights include:
- del.icio.us buttons. Easily access your bookmarks and post new bookmarks.Position these buttons anywhere you’d like.
- Popup post window. Post a bookmark without leaving the page you are on.The popup disappears after you hit “save”.
- Right-click post. Bring up the post popup from any mouse position.Right-click on a link to post that link.
- Highlight notes. Add notes to your post by highlighting text and then posting.Notes can help you remember an item.
- del.icio.us menu. Quick access to del.icio.us with keyboard shortcuts.Menu can be hidden if desired.
- del.icio.us search. Quickly search for your bookmarks or others.Discover new sites.
November 29th, 2005
