Foxmarks ate my bookmarks

I had the Firefox add-on Foxmarks v2.6 installed on all of my computers. Its a piece of software that automatically syncs bookmarks on every computer you use. Its one of the few add-ons that I actually used with Firefox. I never had a problem with it until the other day. For some inexplicable reason, it ate all of my bookmarks.

I had my bookmarks filed and sorted into perfect order and now most of them are gone.

I’m now left with only one folder of bookmarks (Politics) and everything else is gone. I’ve lost hundreds of my bookmarks.

This is precisely the kind of thing that makes me want to wash my hands of all open source software. When something goes totally wrong with open source, you are forced to remember that you paid absolutely nothing for it. It has absolutely no warranty and it is provided totally “as-is”. In fact, if you read the term of service (TOS) included with Foxmarks, you will see that the makers disclaim any implied responsibility that the software even works the way its supposed to.

What’s the point of even making it?

The makers of Foxmarks are trying to create a new and supposed better search engine. It will be based entirely on the data mined from Foxmarks user’s bookmarks. Their goal is not to create a quality bookmark synchronizer for people to use. Their goal is to compile information provided by Foxmarks users so they can create a search engine to make a buck.

They wont be getting any more of my help.