Deleting bookmarks
Friday, 18 July 2008 13:59![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
claidheamhmorSo yesterday I deleted most of my Internet Explorer favourites (after backing them up, and exporting them to an HTML bookmark file). I realised that I regularly use only 30 or 40 sites, and most of the time, I don't go looking for links I've saved, I just go googling. Keeping the favourites in sync between work and home was becoming an issue too - copying 2500 favourites to my flash drive could take a couple of hours.
So I first used Maxthon's link checking feature to scan all my favourites to see if the sites were still online, and after deleting the 300 that weren't, backed the favourites up, and deleted all except the sites I use regularly.
The big advantage now is that Maxthon's automatic online favourites and settings feature works: my favourites, settings, ad-block lists, etc. are all automatically synced between work and home. Previously, it didn't work because there's a 300KB limit on favourites, and I exceeded that.
So I first used Maxthon's link checking feature to scan all my favourites to see if the sites were still online, and after deleting the 300 that weren't, backed the favourites up, and deleted all except the sites I use regularly.
The big advantage now is that Maxthon's automatic online favourites and settings feature works: my favourites, settings, ad-block lists, etc. are all automatically synced between work and home. Previously, it didn't work because there's a 300KB limit on favourites, and I exceeded that.