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I have four devices that I want to sync my bookmarks across: a Mac Mini, a Macbook Air, an iPad2, and a Windows 7 PC.

I use Safari on the three Apple products and Firefox 8 on the Windows 7 PC. I use iCloud to sync my bookmarks with the three Apple devices, but this obviously leaves my Windows PC out of the loop. I realize that I can sync the bookmarks to IE and then constantly export them and import them into Firefox, but this is both clunky and not really a "sync" since things that I bookmark on my PC in Firefox won't show up on my other devices.

What is the best way to sync my bookmarks from iCloud with a PC running Firefox 8?

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As described, it's not possible without some hack or intermediate method, like using IE. – Randolph West Dec 14 '11 at 18:49
I was hoping that there would be an add-on or something similar that I was unaware of that would handle this in the background. – MDMarra Dec 14 '11 at 19:18
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Xmarks can be combined with iCloud. I use XMarks on Windows machine and on OS X machine. Using iCloud on OS X machine and iPad. I get all bookmarks synchronized on all devices. Drawback is that you need to synchronize on OS X in order to sync between Windows and iPad. But in my case this is not a problem since my Mac Mini is up most of the time.

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have you tried xmarks, you can install it on firefox and opera (http://download.xmarks.com/download/all) and it will essentially copy your stored bookmarks onto their own secure site which you can then download on any client pc you want once logged in.

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That doesn't address the iPad, which is my primary device when I'm home. The only way that I'm aware of to sync bookmarks to an iPad is via iCloud, which if why I'm hoping there's an add-on to sync FF bookmarks to iCloud. – MDMarra Dec 14 '11 at 20:37
does the ipad not let you install firefox? you can on mac os normally - this would be my other alternative :) – PrivateSniper Dec 14 '11 at 21:07
I was merely offering an alternative thing to try, no need to get stroppy. Also I dont have an option to add comment to the question so I had to post as an answer. – PrivateSniper Dec 15 '11 at 8:25
@PrivateSniper, there is no build for Firefox targeting the iPad. iOS and Mac OS X may be based on the same BSD underpinnings, but they're quite different. – Randolph West Dec 16 '11 at 7:21
Fair enough then :) – PrivateSniper Dec 16 '11 at 8:35
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An easy solution is to use the Firefox extension "plainoldfavorites". The IE bookmarks are then directly accessible from Firefox and no export/import is necessary. And the IE bookmarks are directly sync'd to iCloud.

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