What the Floccus?!? — or, another look at cross-browser bookmarks sync

My new choice turns out to be not new at all.I wrote nearly three years ago about wanting to simplify the chore of keeping bookmarks synchronized across multiple web browsers. While I’ve tried various possible solutions, I’m now on another. And, to my embarrassment, it seems actually to have been around well before some of the others I’d tried; I just hadn’t heard of it until recently. In case you haven’t, either, I invite you to meet Floccus. Our story so far . . .Before I tell you about Floccus, I’ll rehash my aforementioned 2023 post about syncing bookmarks. Up to that point, I had long been using xBrowserSync for this purpose, but that choice had grown increasingly unsatisfactory for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was that xBrowserSync was no longer under active development. That sadly remains true: the latest version is still v.1.5.2 from mid-2020. Making this worse is that, since then, the whole Manifest V3 drama has ensured that any browser extension of such…