Reviews for Livemarks
Livemarks by Tim Nguyen, Tom Schuster
354 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13430064, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nebelnic, 4 years agoI get an 403 forbidden error on google news (https://news.google.com/news/rss) since yesterday. This follows the update of firefox 89 to 90.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Sans Undertale, 4 years agoWhile my preferred Feed Reader on Desktop is the excellent FeedBro browser extension, I've been in the market for a decent way to keep feeds synced across multiple devices. I do enjoy using different feed readers on Mobile and Desktop, yes, but the drawback is that I have to manually mark read something on my phone after reading it on my Desktop and visa-versa.
This almost solves my problem. Feeds that I subscribe to are indeed synced across all my devices running Firefox (because they're saved as bookmarks), but there's one fatal flaw that keeps me from dumping FeedBro in favor of this, and I realize it's not something that can be resolved easily due to the limitations of being a browser extension. Simply put, if I subscribe to a feed on one device, it will only update on that device. I can access the feed from my other devices, but it will only refresh the feed on the device that it originated from.
I still give it four star because it DOES sync on technicality, but that's all it has going for it. In general, I find FeedBro to be the more feature rich (and less permission heavy) alternative at the cost of only having my feeds on one local device at a time.
Edit: Browsing the Git-Hub for this extension, I found this: https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/issues/22 to be a fascinating read. A ongoing journal of past (failed) attempts to make proper Livemark Sync work across multiple devices. At present, the issue is still open, but not updated since 2019. This will be a fascinating development to watch over time, but I doubt there will be a solution soon unless Mozilla were to completely revise how Bookmarks are saved (or better yet, offer their OWN take on integrated RSS feeds in the Firefox Browser again after all these years). - Rated 5 out of 5by aiteann, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dypsis, 4 years agoIt doesn't auto update anymore. I have to reload Live Bookmarks manually.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16906723, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14872371, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aronshade, 4 years agoThis is a necessity for RSS feeds! I use it for webcomics, music stations, even wordpress and twitter updates.
- Rated 5 out of 5by SaladGoat, 4 years agoThis was a really good extension before, but only got better with the addition of the ability to open all unread pages. Excellent job!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16813626, 4 years agoWell, after overcoming my own ignorance, I must say that this is the perfect replacement for Firefox's live bookmarks. Furthermore, the support is outstanding. Just remember, Livemarks creates a bookmark folder for any given rss feed. Just drag that folder to your bookmark toolbar and, voila, live bookmarks lives again. This add-on allowed me to update my Firefox 60 to Firefox 78 and retain the functionality that I wanted. Can't say enough.
- Rated 5 out of 5by yazan, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14499622, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mistermind, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hak1, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Paul, 4 years ago(English below)
Presque parfait, fonctionne à peu près comme l'ancien lecteur de flux de Firefox. Seul reproche : les icônes ne sont pas personnalisables.
Almost perfect, works roughly as the previously existing Firefox RSS reader. Little nitpick: I would like to be able to have the website icon as the folder image (but does Firefox allows that?) and have the icons change instead of an added checkmark (which is not as visible as the yellow RSS icon turning gray) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14852363, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14593595, 4 years agoThis is just what I was looking for - thank you! :)
- Rated 4 out of 5by Remona, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Sunsprite, 4 years agoI would love to try this, but I am not psychic. WHERE are the directions? How do I use it to clean my bookmarks of dead links?
- Rated 4 out of 5by dr_white, 4 years agoI am sitting here stunned right now. I have been holding onto a v.56 fork of FF for years now solely because of Liveclick, the legendary livemarks enhancement addon that was sadly abandoned when it seemed RSS folder functionality had been made impossible in "Chromefox". And now here I am looking at the impossible on my bookmarks bar. I would swear I've read the name Tim Nguyen associated with addons in the past, too. In any case I can't express my appreciation for this breakthrough enough and I can only hope that Mozilla doesn't somehow wreck this feature YET AGAIN. Obviously what I and many other newsfeed junkies would love to see next is as much of Liveclick's power as possible added to this new extension. Being able to have the titles of unread articles shown in boldface was a godsend, with a configurable timer that would mark them as read after a certain number of seconds! I'm guessing its probably either very difficult or not even within reach, however, considering the lack of flexibility in anything with Chromium DNA. Ah, the days when it was all about empowering the user...how I want to see those times return :)
Suggestions that hopefully might be possible to implement without too much trouble:
* Option to keep FF from shortening titles of articles. I know FF has always had a stupid arbitrary limit to the length of titles on the bookmarks toolbar but I can't find a solution like Place's Full Titles any longer.
* Either a way to support the syncing of Livemarks to our FF account bookmarks or an export/import function just for Livemarks. - Rated 5 out of 5by Aquaris, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 墲穹芜烬, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6177528, 5 years agoThis extension was great, but after the update to Firefox 79.0 (windows 64 bit) it no more works :-(
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(update: SOLVED :-) it was the use of CCleaner that cancels some sqlite archives in Firefox. Thanks to the developers of this extension)Developer response
posted 5 years agoHey! We have had some other person complain about this on github: https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/issues/263.
Make sure you aren't using CCleaner. Otherwise maybe open a new issue on github, so we can more easily follow up. Thanks