Reviews for Sync Bookmarks
Sync Bookmarks by Richard Wong
7 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14365688, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 6250778, 7 years agoCan you please tell more about your Adds-on. Does that work or will works across the different browsers or it work just with FF only?
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHi, as I mentioned in "About this extension", the bookmark is synced using Google Drive if you sign in. Therefore if you installed the same extension in Google Chrome, you should be able to see your saved bookmarks. - Rated 5 out of 5by Frank Sproede, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12623088, 7 years agoThis is NOT an real bookmark synchronizer. This is NOT a substitute for Xmarks.
Here is everything that's wrong with this extension.
1. The name of the extensions is very misleading. Beware, it does NOT synchronize your Firefox bookmarks!!! In fact, it doesn't do ANYTHING with your actual bookmarks. This extensions does NOT do what Xmarks does, or what Firefox Sync does. Not even close.
Here is what it does - it synchronizes INDIVIDUAL URLS that you manually add to the extension from your currently open tabs. What it calls "bookmarks" is the URLs that you manually add to it, NOT your existing FIrefox bookmarks. It should be called something like "Share URLs from open tabs".
The whole reason I wanted to try this extension, is because I'm looking for a replacement to Xmarks. THIS IS NOT IT!
2. The extension doesn't just send your data through Google. Once you log in to Google, it asks you to give another website access to your Google account. That website is ALLIZOM.ORG.
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I didn't know anything about this website. There isn't ANY documentation in this extension explaining any of this, and why it needs to access both Google, and also Allizom.org at the same time. I had to do some research to find out what Allizom is, and I'm still not 100% confident that it is legit.
3. After allowing this extension, and Allizom.org, access to my Google account, I got a Certificate error, saying "Your connection is not secure"
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I was nervous about permitting this insecure certificate access to my data. I clicked on "Advanced" and I see a message saying: "Wrong site. The Certificate belongs to a different site, which could mean that someone is trying to impersonate this site." OMG
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Then, I gave permission to add the exception, and I got this “Forbidden” error message:
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At this point I’m basically scared to use this extension because it looks very fishy and dangerous. I am removing the access to my Google account and the bogus certificate from my computer. This looks like spyware.
Stay away!Developer response
posted 7 years ago1. It never claims to sync your Firefox bookmarks. It helps you to create another list of bookmarks that you can sync using your Google account. There is a misunderstanding of the term "bookmarks".
2. The request of permission for ALLIZOM.org is because it is a Mozilla Firefox extension, and it ask for permission to save the bookmarks data in your Google Drive app data folder. (Another Firefox extension developer who use Google API can verify this.)
3. I'm not sure why do you have issue on that.
However, I should say that currently I do not have time to update this extension. Since there seems to be some updates from Google API and Firefox extension API, I don't yet have time to update my extension.