Comments on: RoBoForm vs. Foxmarks

By: Monaye

Monaye — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:10:10 +0000

LastPass looks promising. Used to have RoboForm but recently bought MAC and I was so upset when found out RoboFrom doesn’t support MAC. But now I like more with LastPass, $1/month for premium seems great $ to support them.

By: GazGuzla

GazGuzla — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:18:28 +0000

Agreed. The last version of Xmarks and the last version of RoboForm (badgering you to buy, setting limitations on free that render RoboForm next to useless) has changed my opinion. Not going to remove this post, perhaps the comments will be useful. Will have a look at Lastpass, thanks for the tip.

By: Brett Schulte

Brett Schulte — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:23:16 +0000

As a former fan of Roboform, and a user of Foxmarks / Xmarks, I am currently using LastPass. Roboform is stubbornly anti-Mac, and Foxmarks changed their core concept when they changed to Xmarks. Lastpass is great, and they’re the last player standing.

By: GazGuzla

GazGuzla — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:21:10 +0000

ecards – Not recommending one or the other. I was talking about the cool things it does, from my point of view. Would be nice to have some of my more important passwords that are really complicated and hard to remember (with the associated Bookmark) encrypted, and available to me on a flash when I travel. That I don’t like syncing passwords (like my bank account) to some unknown server on the net, and trust a stranger for its safety. And the many other cool things it does, like connect to a Feed Reader that has a built in browser, but you can’t save Bookmarks or Passwords on it. Or the auto login feature, where you click on a saved Bookmark, it enters the User and Password for you, logging you directly in, solving a long known security vulnerability (Keystroke logging AKA keylogging, a method of capturing and recording user keystrokes).

Don’t take this personal, but the fact it doesn’t fit what your trying to do, doesn’t make it a big weakness. Wish Foxmarks worked on IE and the other browsers. It doesn’t (at the time of this reply, plans are that it will). RoBoForm does, connects to any browser. That’s important to me, being a beta tester on multiple browsers. Do I think Foxmarks has a “big weakness” because it can’t support IE? Considering IE is 75% of the browsers out there, maybe. But I don’t think I would call it that, cause it was built for Firefox users in the first place.

Maybe I just should have said – For your requirements, (and you use Firefox) use Foxmarks. I use it for the majority of Bookmarks, generic to multiple systems.

By: ecards

ecards — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:02:58 +0000

I think you’re missing a big weakness of Roboform.

For people who have multiple computers, say one if the office and a laptop in another room, it’s ridiculous to keep moving a flash drive around your house just to keep things sync’d.

For guest computers I see your point, but for multiple computers owned only by you Roboform is a real pain to sync.

By: GazGuzla

GazGuzla — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:00:34 +0000

For ordinary bulk Bookmarks I agree with using the foxmarks website. So long as you don’t need the passwords to go with them. I also agree that installing the foxmarks extension on a friend’s computer and syncing would cause commingling.

My post is referring to Bookmarks that have Passwords. That I personally don’t like syncing my passwords to a server who knows where on the internet. The example is using RoBoForm2Go, which is installed on your flash, so there’s no installing on the local system at all. You just plug it in and that’s it, automatically connects to the browser for that session. You have all your passwords.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:25:33 +0000

I’m curious–why not simply use http://my.foxmarks.com/ when you’re at a friend’s place? Installing the entire extension could cause commingling of your bookmarks with theirs, which mightn’t be so great.