Reviews for floccus
floccus by Marcel Klehr
Review by zxMarce
Rated 4 out of 5
by zxMarce, 7 years agoInstalled Floccus and registered an account in OwnDrive to backup bookmarks. The addon never synced.
At the left of the "Options" and "Sync Now" buttons it says "X Error!" and immediately below the buttons an error description says "JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data".
No idea what to do, error is not self-explanatory and does not give any hints regarding which JSON is crippled, nor a dump of such file; checked the GitHub site but could not make heads nor tails of the code (not a JS dev, more of a C# and VB.Net one I am).
Checked account "https://my.owndrive.com/" with my username and password and it browses OK. Would like the author to try an OwnDrive account, as they say it supports NextCloud, and post his findings, or at least a basic tutorial on how to set up Floccus with a third-party server, not just with localhost. I am not really sure of the URL to use; tried several (taken from the site being browsed in Firefox) to no avail. I'm sure I'm the one doing something wrong, but there are no good working examples of Floccus setups in the Mozilla not Addon Home pages.
Using FF 59.0.2 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 16.04.
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EDIT 1: Cannot reply to your reply, so using this edit.
Thanks a lot for the response.
No, I did not enable or install a Bookmarks app, and my guess is that I would have to do that on OwnDrive.
OwnDrive has its own applet that one would drag to FF Bookmarks to upload, but I guess that is not the one you refer to. Also, no versions given.
Can you help me providing an adequate Bookmarks App link? If it has install instructions for third-party servers like OwnDrive, much better.
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EDIT 2: Cannot reply to your reply, so using this edit.
Also tried Wolkli, does not even have a Bookmarks secction, looks like they removed it.
None of OwnDrive or Wolkli allow adding apps to their free accounts. So the addon isn't any good to me. It could work for people that have their own NextCloud server, but not my case. Too bad.
In view of this, I'll give 4 stars to the addon.
At the left of the "Options" and "Sync Now" buttons it says "X Error!" and immediately below the buttons an error description says "JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data".
No idea what to do, error is not self-explanatory and does not give any hints regarding which JSON is crippled, nor a dump of such file; checked the GitHub site but could not make heads nor tails of the code (not a JS dev, more of a C# and VB.Net one I am).
Checked account "https://my.owndrive.com/" with my username and password and it browses OK. Would like the author to try an OwnDrive account, as they say it supports NextCloud, and post his findings, or at least a basic tutorial on how to set up Floccus with a third-party server, not just with localhost. I am not really sure of the URL to use; tried several (taken from the site being browsed in Firefox) to no avail. I'm sure I'm the one doing something wrong, but there are no good working examples of Floccus setups in the Mozilla not Addon Home pages.
Using FF 59.0.2 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 16.04.
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EDIT 1: Cannot reply to your reply, so using this edit.
Thanks a lot for the response.
No, I did not enable or install a Bookmarks app, and my guess is that I would have to do that on OwnDrive.
OwnDrive has its own applet that one would drag to FF Bookmarks to upload, but I guess that is not the one you refer to. Also, no versions given.
Can you help me providing an adequate Bookmarks App link? If it has install instructions for third-party servers like OwnDrive, much better.
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EDIT 2: Cannot reply to your reply, so using this edit.
Also tried Wolkli, does not even have a Bookmarks secction, looks like they removed it.
None of OwnDrive or Wolkli allow adding apps to their free accounts. So the addon isn't any good to me. It could work for people that have their own NextCloud server, but not my case. Too bad.
In view of this, I'll give 4 stars to the addon.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHey there, it looks like you don't have the bookmarks app installed, versoin 0.11 of which is required for floccus to work. Please confirm. :)
EDIT: Thanks for your feedback. I can recommend checking one of the providers listed over here: https://nextcloud.com/providers/
EDIT: Thanks for your feedback. I can recommend checking one of the providers listed over here: https://nextcloud.com/providers/
171 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12897648, 18 days agoI would like to retract everything I previously wrote. The issue was not caused by the 'Floccus' addon but by the Firefox browser itself.
The addon works properly and efficiently. I had to uninstall and reinstall Firefox from scratch to resolve the issue with logging into Google Drive. I admit I let my emotions get the better of me and was very frustrated, which is why my previous review was so negative.
I want to apologize for my mistake and am now trying to make amends. Hats off to the developer, Marcel Klehr, and my sincere apologies.
Additionally, I’d like to suggest one feature: Firefox allows separators in bookmarks, which Chrome does not support. Perhaps it would be worth considering options like “remove separators,” “ignore separators,” or “convert separators.”
For clarity, I’m leaving my original, negative review below so the context is fully understandable.
### old review below ↓
On Google Chrome, I installed this extension without any problems. I connected to Google Disc and the corresponding file appeared. Unfortunately, importing the profile into Firefox always fails. I deleted all profiles and wanted to reverse the situation. First I wanted to create a profile on Firefox. When logging into my Google account, an error always appeared.
Of course, other extensions or other logins from Firefox to Google account do not end in any error.
I really needed this type of bookmarks synchronizer but it doesn't work for me. I am very sorry, the extension does not meet my expectations. And please do not write in the comments that it is something wrong with me, or that I am too weak, too stupid to manage. It does not work and it should work without any problems. I expect problem-free operation from extensions. Then I make a donation.Developer response
posted 17 days agoHello, I'm sorry this didn't work for you. If you like you can open an issue over on github, so I can try to help you: https://github.com/floccusaddon/floccus/issues - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17948488, a month agoWorks very well. I'm using it for syncing with my NextCloud instance. Thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by 石柱, a month ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Carles, a month agoExcel·lent eina per a sincronitzar marcadors/favorits entre dispositius (mòbil, raspberry pi, ordinador...).
També sincronitza amb Bookmarks per a NextCloud. - Rated 5 out of 5by 无能狂怒气死自己, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by AnGry, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17472209, 2 months agoExtremely useful add-on, especially since it's able to sync with a git repo.
- Rated 5 out of 5by jacme31, 2 months agoExcellent moyen de synchronisation des signets. Universel sur tous navigateur sur desktop et mobile. Fonctionne très bien sur un serveur nextcloud.
- Rated 5 out of 5by resol341, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13483122, 2 months agoThis is in my opinion the most privacy friendly bookmark syncing method. It is very easy to set up; you only need to install the nextcloud app and point the extension to it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by JBBNDE, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18679440, 3 months agoNeeded a bit of work to set it up but works great (Firefox on Windows and Linux)/
- Rated 5 out of 5by dayfuaim, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by HumanistAtypik, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jose Abreu M, 4 months agoMuy buena app, fácil de usar y sin muchas complicaciones. Aparte de ser de código abierto
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18511224, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Xzz, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13447191, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by callMeConnor, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by F.DUBUS, 5 months agoCette application est incroyable... depuis des années je cherchais un moyen de synchroniser mes bookmarks entre tous mes machines et les différents browsers edge, firefox, chrome c'est enfin chose faite. Dommage que les limitations d'apple ne permettent pas à l'extension de gérer directement les bookmark safari sur IOS. L'appli sur IOS dépanne toutefois, après sur mes mobiles je n'ai jamais vraiment géré les bookmarks.
- Rated 5 out of 5by PikachuEXE, 5 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by SunDevil311, 5 months ago