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? 
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*
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.
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.
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?
Thank god I found someone else who hates this. My friends thought I was going crazy. I simply don’t like it.
in 3.28 it doesnt have the option to turn it off… and its really irritating… how can i fix it
mm nevermind, i uninstalled it and it had the option lol =D
I don’t think you’re being cantankerous at all. I was furious and it took weeks for me to have the time to figure out how to turn this feature off.
Well first of all, thanks for sharing this tip! Now I have a way of turning off that annoying feature. It wasn’t like that before, good thing I found your blog! Like you, though I stumble a lot of sites I don’t want them all to be bookmarked.