Ah, I see that Syncmarx is currently only looking at Chrome and Firefox. One of the key strengths that made Xmarks great was the range of browsers it support (what’s the point of cross-browser syncing that only supports 2 browsers?) It included those two, plus all the OS browsers Edge, IE, and Safari. It also worked fine with Opera (though Syncmarx may too, because generally Opera runs Chrome extensions). I did post a note to the Syncmarx developer asking to add support for MS Edge. That would be critical to my using it.

Thanks. I never heard of Syncmarx. I’ll look forward to checking that out.

Hi GraniteStateColin, thanks for sharing your experience in so much detail. Roboform is certainly the best choice if you want a paid solution. But most people will shy away from paid alternatives and will look for something free with similar functionality. One other alternative that I have my eyes on is Syncmarx. It is very similar to XMarks but it’s still in its early development stages. It can’t synchronize tags, descriptions etc but the bookmarks are synchronized. I will wait for its stable release.

But if anyone is looking for an all in one solution, nothing beats Roboform.

The others seemed like abandonware, at least on Windows 10. They appeared not to have been updated since the XP days, with no support for Edge, touch, the Notification area, or anything.

Because I blamed LastPass for dropping support for Xmarks, and RoboForm was first and foremost a password manager, I have also shifted from LastPass to RoboForm for password management. This was a simple process – RoboForm imported all my LastPass data in a few seconds. Now I have 1 program to do everything. That’s a nice consolidation.

RoboForm still doesn’t do what made Xmarks special – syncing the bookmarks with the native bookmark/favorite system of each browser. Instead, it keeps its own Bookmarks list you access by clicking on the RoboForm icon near the address bar. This is not as good as the native bookmark/favorite experience because you can’t choose the sort order of the bookmarks within each folder (they’re always sorted alphabetically). The icons for each are also smaller than in some browsers, but it does show the favicon for each bookmark.

If you really want to sync back to the Browser, RoboForm does support exporting Bookmarks to HTML, from which point all the browsers can import it. That’s not a real sync, but may be better than nothing for some.

To Bonfire’s question, no, I don’t think it supports profiles, but you can create as many top-level folders as you want and copy bookmarks or subfolders between them. So you could have a work folder and a home folder, and duplicate any bookmarks you use in both places.