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Keeping your bookmarks in sync across browsers

By Adam Myers ⋅ July 27, 2009 ⋅ Tags: Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer

For many, the browser wars are all but over. If you are still an Internet Explorer user, you have your reasons and aren’t likely to switch. Firefox has most of the momentum and traction as the alternative browser to IE but Google’s Chrome has garnered it’s fair share of converts. At the end of it all, most spend 99% of their time in one browser and that’s that.

However, there are also users like myself that dabble across most of the browsers – every browser has it’s strengths and weakness so why not use the best tool for the job? One reason might be because your bookmarks are not identical between the browsers. You may have a solid core in Firefox but lacking substance in Chrome. Every browser has the import/export functionality to migrate bookmarks around but it quickly breaks down with duplicates and the like. That’s where a utility like Transmute comes in handy.

Transmute is the ultimate bookmark conversion and synchronization software. The application is cross platform, working in Windows as well as Linux and OS X, and requires Microsoft’s .NET Framework (or the Mono package). The software is dead simple to use, just provide the source and destination browser and click start. Transmute is fantastic in that it supports every major browser I can think of, including: Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari, Opera, Konqueror. Not bad for a free piece of software!