Firefox and del.icio.us reinvent your bookmarks.

So now, the bookmark is accessible in a more meaningful way, on a toolbar in Firefox. This toolbar is more flexible than your old bookmarks toolbar (which, by the way, hasn't been deleted; it's still there). In the del.icio.us toolbar, you can choose to view bookmarks individually, or sort them by tags. Here's an example of my bookmarks in the "tags view" sorted by my favorite tags.

Here, your individual bookmarks are available in dropdown menus. If you wish, however, you can choose to view your bookmarks individually in the toolbar. Just click the del.icio.us logo on the far left, and choose "bookmarks view." You can further choose to view either your most recently viewed bookmarks, or your most visited bookmarks.

This is a major improvement over Firefox's default display. Your new bookmarks toolbar is constantly changing. It's either going to show your most recent additions, or it's going to adapt to your changing Internet habits. Remember, if you're surfing sites you don't want others to see, simply edit that bookmark so that it's private.

If you choose not to make it private, it can be seen by other people. Below, you can see how your bookmarks look on the site. A private bookmark will have a red message next to it that says "not shared."


If you edit a bookmark on the del.icio.us site, your changes will be syncronized with your browser. So no matter where you make your changes, you only have to do it once.

Finally, the whole point of del.icio.us is that it enables you to save many more bookmarks than will fit in your toolbar and access them from any computer. If you're on a computer at work, simply access the del.icio.us Web site and search for it, either using your tags or a text search.  You can do the same thing from inside your browser on your main computer.  Press ctrl+B and start typing. The search engine will find both tags and bookmarks using the text you've entered.
 

Okay, there are a ton of other features I don't cover here (e.g., RSS feeds for tags, using del.icio.us for research). But If you have any questions or comments, please post them below. Again, you can download the Firefox extension here. If you don't have a del.icio.us account, get one here. And make sure you add me to your network.