Well it did not take long to find a problem with XMarks. I installed XMarks on my main computer running Firefox 3.5 with no issues. It seems that XMarks offers to sync passwords too, which I did not do. I then spent thirty minutes cleaning up all my bookmarks and synced with the server.

Then I jumped to my Mac and installed the plug-in in Firefox for Mac, logged into XMarks and synced the book marks up. Everything worked great… then I went to Safari.

After downloading the installer, which I did not like right off the bat, and installing the plug-in I was forced to logout and back in (essentially a reboot) then Safari refused to load complaining about a plug-in framework that failed to load. XMarks still worked, and synced the bookmarks, but I could not browse anything without Safari locking up.

I also hated the fact that XMarks installed a system icon in my system tray (sorry forgot the Mac term for the system tray) a browser plug-in should not require a permanently running app in the background.

Also, the fact that the actual plug-in did not even work in Safari is a problem. So I un-installed it immediately.

I am still happy with it for Firefox, but I think they might have been premature in removing the “Fox” part of their name. Because they are obviously still mainly a Firefox application.

It seems that Safari’s plug-in architecture might be to blame too, I just hope that the Chrome version is alot better when it’s release.