Stumbleupon - turn off sneaky bookmarking
Along with roughly 7,999,999 others, I eagerly downloaded Firefox 3 on release day. Not long after, my stumbleupon toolbar was upgraded to 3.23. Let’s have a look at the changelog:
- Adds tag search via the Firefox 3 url bar.
- Adds bookmark integration in Firefox 3.
- Delivers Send-to pages more swiftly.
- Notifies of waiting sent pages via a more easily noticeable button
- Improves browser responsiveness upon login for users with many Friends.
- Adds tutorial information bubbles for novice users.
- Fixes a bug that could cause the sent page counts on the Send-to menu to stop incrementing if you send several pages in succession.
Cool, seems like it’s all good. Wait, what’s that second one again?
- Adds bookmark integration in Firefox 3.
OK, seems innocuous enough. So I’m stumbling happily along, when I suddenly notice that my bookmarks folder looks like this:
Yep, Stumbleupon is now bookmarking every time I hit the thumbs up! This seems a bit superfluous to me; just because I like a page or want to add a pic to my SU blog, it doesn’t mean I want to bookmark it!
Turns out it’s easy to turn off - Tools -> Toolbar Options -> Search and Tagging -> Save Favorites To Firefox Bookmarks Folder.
OK, I know that this is supposed to be a social bookmaring app, but I can’t help but be a little surprised that this is the default behaviour now!
Does anyone out there appreciate this new feature? Am I just being cantankerous again? 
Tags: social bookmarking, stumbleupon
June 26th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
SU throws all the bookmarks in its own special StunbleUpon folder for me, with sub folders for each tag. So its pretty convenient for meh. *shrug*
June 26th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I love it. And all of mine are sent to a neat little StumbleUpon folder. This is handy and makes me thumbs up a lot less often.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Fair enough, diff’rent strokes for diff’rent strokes!
Kortnee, it made me thumb up a lot less too; that might be why I didn’t like it! I tend to be free and easy with the thumbs.
September 15th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Surely it should be an opt-in? When I first noticed this I Googled the topic and found a page discussing it and thought I’d give it a go. However, it doesn’t bookmark everything - probably only about 50% of what I “thumb up”. I’ll be turning it off now (thanks for your post btw!). If I want to see what I’ve given the thumbs up to then I can… oh I don’t know, go to my StumbleUpon page?
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Thank god I found someone else who hates this. My friends thought I was going crazy. I simply don’t like it.