Comments on: StumbleUpon and Firefox 3 – Auto-Bookmark on Thumb Up or Tag

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:38:33 +0000

I never said it is a bad feature. I only stated that I considered a bad move that it is auto-enabled upon installing the toolbar. At least it should ask if you want to use the feature or not.

By: Neamar

Neamar — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:58:36 +0000

I do enjoy this feature ! In combination with Xmarks, it’s really useful to find information about past websites.

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:49:50 +0000

You’re welcome

By: Anukul

Anukul — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:30:13 +0000

Thanks so much!
I have been wondering why my Stumbles get saved as Firefox bookmarks. Now I have disabled that.

Thanks again.
Cheers!

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:34:46 +0000

@john: I managed to get rid of the stumbleupon bookmark tags by just editing each bookmark’s tag. Make sure all bookmarks with the tag you want to get rid of are modified accordingly and you should be fine

@Beamer + Erica: You are welcome

By: Erica DeWolf

Erica DeWolf — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:54:55 +0000

Thank you! I noticed the Stumbleupon actions in my bookmarks menu, but didn’t realized they were being saved to my browser- I disabled. Thanks again!

By: Beamer

Beamer — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:26:23 +0000

I’m going to go try this fix right now! Thank you! I have a blog where I review sites I’ve Stumbled on. I book mark them as I’m Stumbling so I can go back and write them up. But if I Thumb them first, they get mixed in with all my other stumble bookmarks. So I just started giving them a regular book mark so they’ll appear at the bottom of the list so I can find them. But then I forget to give them a thumbs up! And then I feel soooo guilty! If this works, you have saved me!

By: john

john — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:43:26 +0000

I agree, this is a very unfortunate feature…that is, the inability to delete tagged items.

I’ve only come up with two simple workarounds. The first, which didn’t work for me, is to go to organize bookmarks -> backup/restore bookmarks -> backup. This will create a file that you can open in a text editor, and low and behold..here are those pesky tagged items that you can’t get rid of. In theory you should be able to delete them here then import the file again. This did not work for me because my browser is suffering from some kind of bug… I’m not able to import any backup files, reguardless of whether or not I’ve edited the file.

The second option is to install the Hide Unvisited (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7429) add-on, which stops sites that you haven’t visited since the last history clear from popping up in the address bar. This worked fine for my purposes.

This is yet another StumbleUpon feature (bug) in a long list. If it wasn’t such a great little piece of software to begin with I would have left for Digg long ago.

By: sir jorge

sir jorge — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:26:10 +0000

i tried marco’s technique, it doesn’t work for me.

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:29:09 +0000

you can delete the tags, you may need a few mins to get it done though...

open "Organize Bookmarks"
select "Tags"
double click the tag you want to get rid off
modify the tags for each listed bookmark, removing the tag you don't want

that's it