Changing the default setting for del.icio.us bookmarks app to Do Not Share

When I tag a page using del.icio.us, I always have to click “do not share” if I don’t want the link showing up on facebook and elsewhere. Annoying!

This can be changed.

Open firefox. Type in

about:config

into the address bar. Right click anywhere on the page. From the menu that appears, select New->Interger.

It will ask for a name of the new preference. Enter:

extensions.ybookmarks@yahoo.sharemode

It will ask for a value next. Type

1

That’s it! Now the delicious app will default to having the “Do Not Share” option selected. I really wish they made this more straight forward.

Comments (23) left to “Changing the default setting for del.icio.us bookmarks app to Do Not Share”

  1. betis82 wrote:

    Thanks!! I will try this, it was what I had looking for. I dont know why yahoo doesnt give this option by default.

  2. Stephan wrote:

    It’s easy why they don’t do it by default: Delicious is a site about _sharing_ bookmarks. I use delicious both ways, for private and for public reasons, but I understand why Yahoo wants to have “sharing” as default.

  3. Dan wrote:

    Thanks very much- that is very cool and works! Ive been looking for the solution for an hour!

  4. Roso wrote:

    Thanks.

  5. William wrote:

    It should be an option – how hard can that be?
    Thanks for posting this.

  6. User wrote:

    This works great in FF3. Thanks. I wonder how you figured this one out.

  7. MWD wrote:

    Super-helpful. Thanks very much. It worked in latest Firefox (3.0.3) for me.

  8. TooManyPets wrote:

    Using with FF 3.0.5. Very nice; this is a big time saver. Thank you for your post.

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  10. mefoundthis wrote:

    Absolute Must-Have Knowledge!

    The only bookmark I will make PUBLIC on my delicious page ever ;-)

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  12. Cheryl F. (The Lucky Ladybug) wrote:

    Thanks so much! Works great in the latest Flock browser. This is a big time-saver. I want to keep most if not all of my bookmarks private, but I often forget to check “Mark as Private.”

  13. Kasia wrote:

    Exactly what I was looking for and it works great. Thank you!

  14. Preston wrote:

    Thank you! This is just what I was looking for.

  15. Skippy wrote:

    I don’t have this value in my about:config.

  16. Skippy wrote:

    I’m an idiot, it needs to be created first. Heh. Thanks!

  17. kd wrote:

    Excellent! Thank you very much! Works in FF 3.5 and delicious add-on.

  18. films wrote:

    На данном варезнике вы можете легко и бесплатно скачать приколы и всё это бесплатно и без регистрации.

  19. Sue wrote:

    The “mark as private” fix for Delicious in FF is awesome!! thank you so much!

  20. Nate Chastain wrote:

    That worked flawlessly. Thanks a lot, man.

  21. Eddie wrote:

    Thanks!

  22. John wrote:

    Works great on FF 3.6.6 on the Mac – Many thanks :)

  23. John wrote:

    I’d like to do the same thing on a different site.
    Can you explain how you worked out the “ybookmarks@yahoo.sharemode” bit so that I can hopefully work out the equivalent on the other site.
    Thanks

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