Often, when browsing the web on your mobile device you want to save a website you found as a bookmark on FavSync. FavSync Virtual Email helps you doing exactly that.

Here’s how it works: after signing up on FavSync, a virtual email address is automatically created for you with @addtofavsync.com domain name.
When sending an email to your virtual email FavSync will extract the links and save them as bookmarks on your FavSync account in the category “From virtual email”.

You can choose your own virtual email address in the Account Settings.

You can also share your virtual email with friends and colleagues, so whenever they have a new link to share with you, it will be added directly to your FavSync account and will not be lost between the emails.

Some time ago, I was telling about how you can access your FavSync bookmarks from anywhere by using the add-on. From now you can do it directly from the address bar, by simply adding FavSync’s results to your existing browser results!

Here’s how it works in Chrome:

In the settings of Chrome press on Manage search engines.
You will see FavSync as one of the options. Press on Make default:

This will set FavSync as a default search engine and will combine search results from FavSync, Chrome and even Google autosuggest.

Note two things:
1. You can always reverse it easily, by setting Google search engine as default (or any other search engine you had as default).
2. It will still autosuggest Google and will show the bookmarks and history from Chrome. The only thing that will change is that it will add the results from FavSync to it.

You can access your favorite websites even with one-key shortcuts, since it also works with the shortcuts that have been defined on your FavSync page:

And it even works with Direct Search (searching inside websites).
Here’s how: start typing the website you would like to search inside, press arrow down to have it selected and add “:” and then your search query.
It can be also combined with shortcuts.

You can also use it without setting it as a default search engine by typing “favsync.com” in your address bar and by pressing TAB every time.

Here’s how it works in Firefox:

In the search engines field press on the icon and choose “Add FavSync”

Then you can search on FavSync through the search engine field:

The results are the same as in Chrome, just without the browser results, which are shown directly in the address bar of Firefox, so it’s only the FavSync results + Google results.

Recently we’ve added a trim button next to the URL, when adding a bookmark.

Pressing on the trim button will remove everything that comes after the first / and will leave only the parent domain.
Example: www.cnn.com/somearticle will become www.cnn.com

Sometimes I end up reading a good article on a website that I like. Problem is that I want to bookmark the website itself and not the specific article, so that’s when I use the trim button.