Internet Explorer Is Far From Dead
Last Updated on Thursday, 2 June 2011 05:59 Written by Alan Monday, 2 August 2010 06:25
On August 1st NetMarketShare released their figures for July and, for the second straight month, Internet Explorer’s numbers rose. After reaching a 6 month low of 59.75% in May, IE rose to 60.74 in July. And the gain has come at the expense of both Firefox and Chrome.
Firefox dropped for the third straight month and is now down to 22.91%. Chrome, meanwhile, suffered it’s first setback, dropping from 7.24% in June to 7.16% in July.
While the browser wars are wide open again, it does seem that Microsoft’s hard work since the disaster that was IE6 is paying off. The incompatibility, security holes and lack of standards in IE6 bit Microsoft pretty hard and allowed Firefox to jump into the mainstream and grow by leaps and bounds.
With IE9 now taking shape on the horizon this bodes well for Microsoft.
Multiple Bookmarks Profiles in Xmarks
Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 December 2010 07:05 Written by Alan Tuesday, 9 March 2010 08:00
One of the things Xmarks has going for it is its ability to handle multiple profiles. One of the things Xmarks has going against it is the WAY it handles multiple profiles. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not horrible. But, it’s far from good also. You can save different bookmarks on different PC’s to the same account under different profiles, which is great. I have two profiles – one (the “Regular”) handles bookmarks on my desktop and laptop which I want to be the same. The other (the “MCPC”) handles bookmarks for my media center PC, which only requires certain sites, such as TV networks web sites. This seemed great when I set it up. Then things went down hill. I noticed it when I bookmarked a new site on my desktop and, later, saw that bookmark was then on my media center. Huh? Logic would dictate the bookmark only save to the profile of the PC it was created on. But, no, new bookmarks (those created after the profile was created) propagate to ALL profiles. Deletes do this as well. Fixing it is less than intuitive. Here’s how to do it.
1. Log into your Xmarks account.
2. Click My Bookmarks and then click Sync Profiles.
3. Choose the profile where you want to remove (or add) bookmarks.
4. You will now get a list of ALL of your bookmarks with check-boxes next to each site or folder. You can add or remove checks next to each in each of your profiles.
