Out Of Sync With Firefox

December 20, 2007 9:32 AM

My Firefox updated recently and now a dialog box pops up occasionally titled, "Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer." It says, "Please enter your username and password to continue." I have no username or password for Firefox. My computer is not on a network. I cancel out of this and continue, only to have it pop up again a short time later. As far as I can see, synchronization of bookmarks isn't in the help files. How do I disable this?
posted by partner to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

Best answer: You need to uninstall an add on. Click tools > Add ons > and find one that says foxmarks and click uninstall. Restart Firefox and you should be fine.
posted by special-k at 9:36 AM on December 20, 2007

You google that phrase, discover that it's likely caused by an add-on you installed at some point, then disable the add-on.
posted by mumkin at 9:36 AM on December 20, 2007

I've gotten a message like that from when Firefox recently updated my del.icio.us bookmarking tool. I think you'd still follow the advice above about add-ons, I just wanted to chime in that it might be something other than foxmarks.
posted by vytae at 9:43 AM on December 20, 2007

Could this be the reason?
posted by albolin at 9:44 AM on December 20, 2007

Response by poster: I thought I'd googled this, but it was a MeFi search. Anyway--all fixed. Thanks. Funny though, I don't think I had installed the synchronization add-on. I have no use for it. Nonetheless, there it was.
posted by partner at 9:52 AM on December 20, 2007

Not that I want to get confrontational or anything, but, no, it mightn't.

Oops, didn't notice that the thing had "Foxmarks" in the title. Sorry 'bout that.
posted by vytae at 12:18 PM on December 20, 2007

You might want to consider keeping (or reinstalling, if you already deleted it) the Foxmarks add-on. You might not need to sync your bookmarks between two computers, which is its primary function, but it has another useful feature, too: it will host a webpage with all your bookmarks on it, so you can access them from anywhere with Internet access.

Here are the URLs for the service:

my.foxmarks.com - regular version

my.foxmarks.com/m - mobile version
posted by Rhaomi at 1:30 PM on December 20, 2007