A few weeks ago “Wanderer” posted the following in the guest book on my personal website: –
Is there any way to get an install file for Wizz Encrypted Bookmarks? I understand that the application has been phased out, but I’d like to re-install it if possible.
So I went digging…
After much searching, I found it!
It’s actually quite a nice little add-on, so I decided to dust it off and do a bit of work on it. The previous two incarnations have taught me a little bit about how people think… Or should that be don’t think? 
Anyway, I made it a bit smarter. It will no longer try to decrypt bookmarks that are already decrypted (I hope). It will no longer try to encrypt bookmarks that are already encrypted (I hope), and, using a bit of MD5 magic, it won’t decrypt bookmarks if the encryption key is incorrect (I hope).
That’s what it looks like when bookmarks are decrypted
And that’s what it looks like when bookmarks are encrypted
Apart from the encryption stuff, the sidebar works in exactly the same way as the usual Firefox Bookmarks sidebar (Ctrl + B) works (I hope). The search functionality, unlike the search functionality in the usual Firefox Bookmarks sidebar, only searches the Encrypted Bookmarks folder. It is a bit slow, but it does a huge lot of work when encrypting and decrypting.
Please remember, Encrypted Bookmarks uses Blowfish encryption, and, as far as I know, Blowfish encryption has never been broken. So if you forget your encryption key, you’re up shit creek without a paddle!
If you’d like to install Encrypted Bookmarks for Firefox, you can get it here.
Don’t work with Firefox 3.0.10 version!!. Check browser statistics, still there is a lot of people using 3.0.x versions.
btw, nice job!!
@Rose: Yeah, minVersion is set to 3.5 and maxVersion is set to 3.6.*. You can trying changing the minVersion value to 3.0, but there is no guarantee that it’ll work.
To change the minVersion value, do this: -
Look inside your Firefox extensions folder and locate a folder named {138ad28d-f9f2-4cf8-a5bc-bbffa5a549eb} – On a windows PC the path will probably be something like this – C:Documents and SettingsApplication DataMozillaFirefoxProfiles.defaultextensions{138ad28d-f9f2-4cf8-a5bc-bbffa5a549eb}
Inside that folder you should find a file called install.rdf
Open install.rdf with a text editor and change the value for minVersion to 3.0
Save the changes to install.rdf and restart Firefox.
Hopefully the Encrypted Bookmarks add-on will now work for you.
Excellent work! But here may be a bug. It corrupts bookmarklet. javascript:function decrypted to javascript://function and (‘|’); decrypted to (‘|’)/; That means it added two forward slashes after javascript: ((like http://??) and one forward slash after (‘|’). Thanks for your attention.
Excellent work! But here may be a bug. It corrupted bookmarklet. javascript:function decrypted to javascript://function and (‘|’); decrypted to (‘|’)/; That means it added two forward slashes after javascript: (like http:// ??) and one after (‘|’). Thanks for your attention.