Delicious Bookmarks vs. Firefox 3

The Delicious Bookmarks add-on made social bookmarking useful and easy. The high degree of integration with Firefox suddenly made all your shared bookmarks quickly accessible within your browser, where you needed them the most.

Now Firefox 3 includes a powerful bookmarking system and Awesome Bar that rivals, and perhaps surpasses, the revolutionary Del.icio.us addon. And since other approaches to bookmarking are arguably more social than Delicious (e.g., Diigo, StumbleUpon, Yoono) Firefox's bookmarking improvements mean that you may not be locked into Delicious anymore.

	Delicious Bookmarks	Firefox 3 (Awesome Bar & Places)
Tagging	Separate tags with spaces. Tags frequently used by the community are suggested.	Tags are separated by commas, so multiple word tags are easy. However, you're on your own because there are no suggestions. You can see a list of existing tags in a drop down menu.
Comments, Description	Additional descriptive text can be added when you bookmark a site. This field is contained within the dialog	No field for description in the bookmark dialog. But you can edit the description in the bookmark properties (right click on a bookmark).
Keywords	Keywords function as text shortcuts that can be input into the address bar, allowing lightning quick navigation to oft-visited site. Can be edited in a bookmark's properties.	Pretty much the same. If you have Delicious Bookmarks installed, a dialog box warns you of a possible conflict.
Privacy	Bookmark dialog box includes option "Do Not Share." If checked, your bookmark is saved on the Web, but it's not visible to your friends or in your feeds.	No such box because you can't share your bookmarks natively within Firefox. Everything is private by default.
Categories	Del.icio.us allows you to categorize your tags on the Web site. You can then browse these categories within the Delicious Bookmarks interface in Firefox. You cannot assign tags to categories from within the Delicious Bookmarks add-on.	The Bookmark Dialog box allows you assign bookmarks to folders you create. This isn't really necessary anymore, because searching and tagging make it easy to find stuff. But it is aesthetically pleasing.
Clicks-to-save	Two. First click (or ctrl-D) opens the dialog. Second click (or ENTER) to close and save.	One. Just click that star. You can double click the star if you want to add tags or assign a folder. In that case it takes three (3) clicks. The ctrl-D shortcut also opens the dialog box.

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