Difference between revisions of "How to put bookmarks on WSO using the Scuttle Extension for Firefox"

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Wouldn't it be nice to access your bookmarks from anywhere? Now you can with [http://wso.williams.edu/bookmarks/ WSO Bookmarks]. Better yet, there's a Firefox extension that adds pretty buttons to your browser to make it easy to see all of your bookmarks on WSO, and to add a new button.
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==Installation==
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[http://scuttle.org/firefox/scuttle.0.1.1.xpi Download the Extension]
 
[http://scuttle.org/firefox/scuttle.0.1.1.xpi Download the Extension]
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Restart Firefox
 
Restart Firefox
  
 
For Mac:
 
For Mac:
      Hold down "ctrl", click on the navigation bar (which holds icons "back","forward"), and select "customize".
 
  
      Drag the two Scuttle icons out to the navigation bar.
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* Hold down "ctrl", click on the navigation bar (which holds icons "back","forward"), and select "Customize...".
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* Drag the two Scuttle icons out to the navigation bar. They look like these:
  
      Select "Tools" from the top menu.  Click on "Extensions".  In the Extensions window, Click on Scuttle and then click "preferences".  Change the URL to
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[[Image:Scuttle icons.jpg]]
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* Select "Tools" from the top menu.  Click on "Extensions".  In the Extensions window, Click on Scuttle and then click "preferences".  Change the URL to
  
 
           http://wso.williams.edu/bookmarks
 
           http://wso.williams.edu/bookmarks
  
      Installation under windows is very similar
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Installation under windows is very similar
 
 
  
Now evrey time you want to share a page you are currntly browsing, you can click on "Scuttle This Page" to put it on WSO bookmarks
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Now every time you want to share a page you are currntly browsing, you can click on "Scuttle This Page" to put it on WSO bookmarks

Revision as of 20:18, March 1, 2006

Wouldn't it be nice to access your bookmarks from anywhere? Now you can with WSO Bookmarks. Better yet, there's a Firefox extension that adds pretty buttons to your browser to make it easy to see all of your bookmarks on WSO, and to add a new button.

Installation

Download the Extension

Restart Firefox

For Mac:

  • Hold down "ctrl", click on the navigation bar (which holds icons "back","forward"), and select "Customize...".
  • Drag the two Scuttle icons out to the navigation bar. They look like these:

Scuttle icons.jpg

  • Select "Tools" from the top menu. Click on "Extensions". In the Extensions window, Click on Scuttle and then click "preferences". Change the URL to
          http://wso.williams.edu/bookmarks

Installation under windows is very similar

Now every time you want to share a page you are currntly browsing, you can click on "Scuttle This Page" to put it on WSO bookmarks