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 9

  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.

    Posted 31 Jul 2008 at 4:16 pm
  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.

    Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 3:17 am
  3. Dan wrote:

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

    Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 3:23 pm
  4. Roso wrote:

    Thanks.

    Posted 22 Oct 2008 at 7:46 am
  5. William wrote:

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

    Posted 29 Oct 2008 at 4:00 pm
  6. User wrote:

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

    Posted 06 Nov 2008 at 8:09 am
  7. MWD wrote:

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

    Posted 19 Nov 2008 at 10:37 am
  8. TooManyPets wrote:

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

    Posted 11 Jan 2009 at 5:11 am
  9. Rob wrote:

    I just tried this with Firefox 3.5.2 and it works fine, FYI

    Posted 15 Aug 2009 at 9:35 pm

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