Comments on: How to prevent Stumble Upon from bookmarking your liked pages

By: Ale

Ale — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:57:20 +0000

I never had a problem with this.All the stumble bookmarks go into a separate folder, so it doesn’t clutter the main bar.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:11:59 +0000

NOT a good thing to have on by default for one’s work computer. Idiots.

Thanks for the piece!

By: Matt Ellsworth

Matt Ellsworth — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:06:15 +0000

From what I can tell when I went in to look at it – you had to first click download the history in order for it to have things there….

Either way – I use SU way too much to keep a copy of the urls locally – although if you were a smaller user – it might be a nice feature.

By: Arraine

Arraine — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:30:08 +0000

Oh my gosh thank you so so much this was driving me crazy because my bookmarks are suuuuper organized and my incessant stumbling was screwing them up

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:38:37 +0000

@XIII: It sucks if you’ve stumbled more than a few pages.

@Brian: You’re spot on with this – I’ve been stumbling actively only recently, but 70k – good Lord!

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:14:58 +0000

A few hundred? Try tens of thousands. I’ve been a member of SU since 2005 and I’ve “liked” almost 70,000 items since then. I made sure I turned this option off immediately.

By: Roby07

Roby07 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:41:00 +0000

I use the updated version of FF, and yes the SU bookmarking feature did come with the last set of updates from SU. In some ways, I find it useful because I can go back and retrieve items that I stumbled and may want to use on my actual stumble blog such a photos, but on the other hand I find it cumbersome in that with my current internet setup it sort of takes a bit of time to actually load into the folder. There’s a pro and con to everything I guess. I’m quite certain it was there for a while before I discovered it though, I had quite a few items bookmarked before I found them while looking for something else. I wonder if there’s any other new thing out there lurking we don’t really know about yet?…LOL Thanks for the post.

By: XIII

XIII — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:16:53 +0000

actually, if you have firefox 3, the bookmarking feature makes sense. it allows you to search pages you have liked using firefox’s awesome url bar. for example, if i wanted to get back to this page, all i had to do is write “how to prevent stumble upon…” in the direction bar, and it would show me this page. be sure to try it out.

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:13:32 +0000

@Zaxy: I actually use Firefox too – with SU v.3.25, the latest version. Will update the post now – thanks for pointing out a possible confusion.

By: Zaxy

Zaxy — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:02:44 +0000

this is interesting, but what is the ‘latest update’ you’re referring to? also, is it only in the IE version of the update? i ask, because your directions to correct it are for IE browsers. I use firefox (woo hoo!) with SU v.3.16, and i haven’t (yet) had a SU folder created automatically. i will keep an eye out for it, in future (forced) updates, tho.

great tip/heads-up! thanks! please consider adding the additional info.
~Z