Xmarks Sync
| Developer(s) | Mitchell Kapor, Todd Agulnick, Penny Campbell, David Loftesness |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2006 |
| Stable release |
Firefox: 4.3.7.1 (May 12, 2015) |
| Platform | Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari |
| Type | Browser synchronizer and Browser extension |
| License | Proprietary commercial software |
| Website | www |
Firefox: 4.3.7.1 (May 12, 2015)
IE: 1.3.15 (November 11, 2014)
Safari: 2.0.19 (March 12, 2015)
Xmarks, formerly Foxmarks, was a San Francisco-based company which produced an add-on to web browsers, which is also entitled Xmarks. The company was founded in 2006 by Mitch Kapor and was acquired by LastPass in December 2010.
The Xmarks bookmark synchronizer is an extension for Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Apple Safari (on OS X 10.5 and 10.6) that synchronizes bookmarks between computers, can also synchronize passwords, open tabs, and browsing history (Firefox only).Opera support has not been directly implemented as of 2015 but the Chrome extension is available in Opera via a workaround. As of April 2009 it was one of the most popular Firefox add-ons, attaining over 150,000 downloads per week and almost 15 million total downloads.
In March 2009, Foxmarks was relaunched under a new name and service called Xmarks. Since Xmarks is a superset of Foxmarks, Xmarks includes many new features like suggested tagging bookmarks.
On September 27, 2010 it was announced that, due to the company's current financial projections resulting from its purely voluntary-donations funding-basis, in January 2011, Xmarks would be entirely discontinuing its service. On Sept. 30th, Xmarks CEO, James Joaquin, noted that he had been "pleasantly surprised by the volume of interest" that has been expressed since his initial "closing-announcement". This interest has been shown by both potential buyers of the company, and by those who have thus far pledged to subscribe to the service at the site's "pledge page". At their donations page, Xmarks attempted to acquire pledges from 100,000 of their users to pay $10–20 per year for a proposed "premium Xmarks service" which launched on 9 December 2010. To the date October 7, 2010, Xmarks investors had invested $9 million into the Xmarks project, but with a return on this investment not yet clearly in sight, unless sufficient pledges are received by October 15, 2010, apparently these initial investment funds are reaching an end-point.
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