Disagreed - Jeremy H425

> The latest reviews are less than fair.


Wrong. I spent quite a bit of time on this program, went through every single features came with the package, and I even compared it with other products features by features.


> This is a solid, established
> product without which I could not live.


Wrong, again. This is an OS 9 hangover product that needs much needed renovation. I can certainly live without it, and as a matter of fact everything works better without it.


> Its main utility is that it
> allows me to collect several large sets of bookmarks and painlessly
> switch among browsers with the same bookmark sets. (Switching browsers
> is a must in a world of uneven web site development and the current
> state of flux in the Mac browser market.)


What flux in the Mac browser market are you talking about? I surf the web all day. I do it for work. I use many e-commerce sites, use banking sites and so on, and Safari has been working just fine for all of them. For some people it would be Mozilla, Opera, etc. but the point is that the vast majority of people, even so called powerusers, use one primary browser. People with real work and tight deadlines do not have time to be obsessed with 5 different browsers, and they don't care to "fix" minor layout glitches and so on every time they run into them. Yes, once in a while I run into "IE-only" sites. I either use Safari's "Debug" menu to pretend like I am on IE, or launch Internet Explorer just for that site and be done with it as quickly as possible. The point is that nobody CONSTANTLY needs to use 5 different browsers. People only think they need to.

That said, let me take 100 steps back and let's say I do need to use 5 different browsers all the time. In that case, I simply use drag & drop from Safari Bookmark. If I need to bookmark a site visited under IE, for example, I drag and drop the URL from IE to Safari Bookmark, and viola! It is filed away in one place. Simple. There is absolutely NO need to use URL Manager or its clumsy, obtrusive and unreliable Shared Menu or malicious Application Enhancer menu.

If I need such perfection that all browsers absolutely must have an identical set of bookmarks, I would use BookIt. It does an excellent job of synchronizing bookmark files among multiple browsers. If I absolutely must use an external bookmark manager, BookmarkTool is FAR better than URL Manager with some unique features.


> The application is stable,
> and the developer has been responsive to the big changes in Mac OS and
> its GUI standards.


Laughable. According to some reviewers it doesn't even properly support Unicode. URL Manager's GUI looks more like OS 9 hangover. Not to mention ugly and clumsy Shared Menu.


> The transition from OS 9 to Jaguar to Panther was
> painless for me.


It was painless for me without the help of URL Manager. I had no trouble importing all my bookmarks under OS 9, and I have no trouble exporting all my bookmarks to other generic formats without the help of URL Manager.

So, I am yet to find a single reason I should put up with the negative aspects of this poorly designed app.

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Sunday, May 23 2004 @ 12:43 AM PDT

Disagreed - gaseous1

Jeez, if you hate this application so much, then wipe it off your hard drive and be done with it.

Don’t bother convincing those of us who really do like it that we’re stupid, incompetent or don’t do “real work” - you’re wasting your breath, your fingers and valuable bandwidth! Besides, we enjoy something you don’t and your opinion isn’t going to change that -- especially when you insult the very people you’re trying to influence.

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Tuesday, June 22 2004 @ 06:27 PM PDT