Reviews & Comments of floccus bookmarks sync chrome extension

After a year of using this solution, it's still best!

I don't know if there is anything I did wrong, but instead of synching the bookmarks from Brave into my cloud, this extension is opening all the bookmarks and making my browser to run at 95% CPU and 99% Memory. Eventually it crushed. And now, every time I open Brave, the pop-ups keep coming. To stop them, I had to open Brave and then turn off this extension before Brave stopped responding. I need help to set this up, please.

Very flexible, and can sync bookmarks across *many* different devices and browsers. You can use your own Nextcloud server, or store the bookmarks encrypted on Google Drive or another cloud service. Either way, you know who has access to them, which is a big bonus for privacy. The desktop browser add-on is mostly set-and-forget and you just use your regular browser bookmarks. For as many browsers as you want. I've been using it to sync between Firefox and Chrome since 2020, and while it had some problems syncing early on, it's been solid for so long I can't even *remember* the last time I encountered a sync error. The mobile app syncs your bookmarks to itself, since most mobile browsers don't let add-ons access their bookmarks. It took all of 30 seconds to set up the Android version with my Nextcloud, and the initial sync didn't take much longer. The UI is simple, letting you do the basics of adding, removing, editing and moving bookmarks. They open in your default browser, and you can share a link from your browser to Floccus to bookmark it.

Potentially a handy product. Unfortunately it's quite buggy. Lots of bookmarks/folder get duplicated. Now it even stopped synchronizing for some folder (which one??) that doesn't exist...

Seems to work well, thank you for your work

I had high expectations from this extension, based on other reviews for both the Chrome extension as well as the Edge extension. Unfortunately the blue "Login with Chrome" button causes Edge to crash every time. I've installed the extension on Chrome also, but haven't tested it here as I need it to work on both browsers to sync. I'm using Windows 11

Best nextcloud bookmarks extension so far. Simple and useful.

Wonderful extension! I've been looking for something that works since x-marks. Across machines and browsers off g-drive works wonderfully. My thanks to the developers. 5*

Excellent! Does exactly what it should. This is a great way to sync bookmarks on non-Chrome browsers like Chromium, Vivaldi, Kiwi, etc. Works well with free Box.com accounts despite Box no longer officially supporting WebDAV. I could not get it to sync with Google drive on Android (Kiwi Browser) but WebDAV sync is fine. This is far more stable and less resource intensive than XBrowserSync. Now we just need some solutions for syncing extensions and other browser components.

After installing this extension and trying to sync with my nextcloud for the first time I get the error: "E017: Network error: Check your network connection and your account details" I suspect it's because "@null" was appended to my username by the extension and it tried to verify with that. It looks like it only works usernames that are emails and the "@null" is a bug.

I use it with LoFloccus and SyncThing/OneDrive, on 7 device/browser combinations. In most time it works perfect. However, sometimes it is failed to sync on one browser suddenly - for example, the local xbel file is updated by browser A, browser B has caught this change but browser C hasn't noticed that (according to log, browser C has received an older (cached?) version of xbel that different from A & B). It can't be fixed by force pull from server / clear cache / etc. It can be fixed after restart browser C. Not sure if the root cause is related to floccus or LoFloccus, but really frustrated. The other issue is when setting up a new browser with existing bookmarks in the first time. The bookmark folder structure can be flatten and duplication can be found everywhere which totally breaks everything. I have to do several tries and make backups / stop sync services carefully to avoid breaking bookmarks on other devices unexpectedly. Besides these issues, this extension works as intended. Nice extension.

works as intended

Love the idea, but unfortunately it never works when trying to sync with my self-hosted Nextcloud instance. I really wish it worked as it's exactly what I've been looking for...

Be extremely careful with this add-on. It worked great for about a week. However, when I woke up this morning, ALL of my bookmarks have been permanently deleted (was using this with Nextcloud). Folder structure was preserved but all bookmarks are just gone. Thankfully, I have backups of all my bookmarks across the machines I was using this on. Will only have permanently lost a few things that I can recover. If you really must use this add-on, make sure you BACKUP everything and make periodic local backups. I have no idea why it did this, there is almost no logging either in the floccus add-on or on Nextcloud. The documentation and support for this is pretty poor (though I do understand that it is maintained mostly by one person). I would highly recommend using something else, since this type of error is completely unacceptable for an app like this. Maybe it works better if you self host or use only local options? I don't care to risk it again at this point.

This extension, if the sync is ever interrupted for any reason, will create duplicates of all your bookmarks in a flattened structure of your original bookmarks you were syncing, which then synchronize, only to themselves be duplicated the next time sync is interrupted. It is absolute trash. I had to write a Python script to go through my bookmarks.html file and de-duplicate it. Do not use this extension!!

For geeks. If you want to spend hours figuring this thing out and complicate your life, install it. I will stick with apps that work out of the box such as EverSync.

The best I guess?

Really Useful Bookmark Manager I use it to keep my bookmarks in sync between Edge (my preferred browser now) and Chrome.

I was looking for a "cross platform / cross browser" bookmark synchronization" and Floccus offers that perfectly. I have been using it for a couple of years and really happy with it. The developer is very responsive and actively adding new features too! Really recommend this one

Worked on the first device, as soon as I went to sync on a second device it completely broke down. Now my NC is no longer showing any bookmarks at all and no bookmarks are showing up on the second browser.

exactly what I wanted, fast support from the programmer. Installed on FF, Edge(chromium),Chrom, Brave with WebDav

I am aware what this extension is capable of.. but it is too minimal for what I need I like that this is totally independent on Google but the world needs online backup not just for bookmarks, but for HISTORY (such as U History extension, but it depends on G. sync) and EXTENSIONS backup and (browser & extension) SETTINGS backup, all into one cross platform powerfull extension, where i am able to view what exactly is held in the cloud. I hate G.sync btw bec. I synced once and I got BOMBARDED (without my consent or approval) by all those ancient extensions that just were there in the servers from a long time ago. and the fact that i am not able to pick what gets synced, espesially when i cant see whats up in the cloud, AND THATS WHY I USE THE WORD "BACKUP" AND NOT "SYNC" because "syncing" is too simplistic of an idea.. MY EXISTING bookmarks also got automatically removed by G.sync.. I hope the developers take this Advice profoundly to their heart because this is truly what I need, and what I would pay for..

It's the best you're going to get if you want to sync data between Chrome and Firefox. Especially if you want to use your own service. Don't let the 5 stars fool you though. It's the best because in many ways it's the only real solution. It crashes or fails sync far too often for my liking, and there's no easy way to transition from V1 bookmarks to V2. Maybe when I make that change things will be more stable, but we will see.

After the retirement of Xmarks I used Firefox for a while to sync my bookmarks, but I wasn't too happy about that. I also wanted to keep my bookmarks on my own server. Floccus does a good job, syncing to my synology NAS at home.

good idea, but... 10.0 MB javascript, are you serious? version: 3.2.16_0

Is slow (instead of defaulting to xbel which is much faster), crashes often, gobbles all the memory. Now displays "Folder ordering is missing some of the folder's children". There doesn't seem to be anything that works flawlessly with Nextcloud yet.

While not perfect (yet) easily the best alternative to Xmarks I've found. But tot op it all off, active development, regular improvements and promises to evolve into the definitive Xmarks replacement,

I liked the idea, it would be even more awesome if it ever worked.. oh well

Installed, input credentials, worked first try. Can't ask for better from an extension. Great work!

A superb piece of work to provide a much needed bit of software that has long been sorely missed or unmaintained in other forms. Have recently given up Google for syncing bookmarks and passwords in Chrome thanks to this and KeePass with the help of Nextcloud. You'd do well to go to his GitHub site and use the donate button like I have... https://github.com/marcelklehr/floccus