While I try to avoid being too stereotypically geeky, I couldn't help but want to shout w00t! at the top of my lungs when I upgraded to the latest version of the del.icio.us bookmarks extension for Firefox.
(I didn't, of course, but I wanted to.)
My joy comes from the fact that while they have occupied Firefox's bookmark folder since their first release, they have finally retreated to the sidebar or a drop-down list!
WhooHoo!
This means I can drag and drop bookmarks like usual, but still have the full-featured tagging goodness of del.icio.us bookmarks! Sure there's the official del.icio.us firefox addon they try to push on you when you first sign up, but if you've tried the del.icio.us bookmarks extension
(also produced by Yahoo! Inc), then you know there is no comparison.
The cool thing about the bookmarks extension is that you don't just have a couple of bookmarks to add a shortcut or view your del.icio.us account, you actually have access to your del.icio.us bookmarks from within the firefox interface, including incremental searches of tags, page titles, and page descriptions. Seriously guys, w00t!
For some reason, when the extension first came out, they disabled the bookmarks functionality of firefox intending on completely replacing it with your del.icio.us account. Fortunately, they realized some people may not want to bookmark their bank's website in del.icio.us, even if you can mark it as "private". Or that maybe some people want some good old fashioned bookmarks that they can drag and drop to manage when they are in a hurry.
Enter version 1.4.25, the best of both worlds.
It is the klondike bar of del.icio.us extensions, but it doesn't melt when someone tries to hold a conversation with you while you are trying to enjoy its ice-cream-chocolatey-goodness.
So, open up the freezer and grab yourself a del.icio.us klondike bar of bookmark tagging goodness and hit it hard and fast, without the fear of brain freeze.
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