I wanted to like this app, but it has really given me more grief than save me time.

When I use it, Webbla spends a lot of time spinning. I has not, however, crashed. When I first started using it, I imported a LOT of URLs. Webbla spun and spun and spun. It hogged the CPU, and the fans on my MBP were doing their best to keep the machine cool. I let it run for at least 30 minutes, and it did finish. I might have force quit another app, but this one was not officially "unresponsive" in Activity Monitor. It was unresponsive for my use till it finished doing whatever it was doing.

This app is not Bookdog, or Bookmacster. Those two apps have their own issues (UI is horrible), but they do sync up bookmarks from all your browsers. Webbla is a stand alone URL keeper thingy. The description on Macupdate, and on the developer website might make that clearer. It's accurate, but incomplete (in my opinion).

Webbla will import URLs from browsers (tho not directly from Chrome). You can use it to arrange your URLs and tag them. You cannot then pop the nicely arranged and tagged bookmarks back into your browser.

The tagging is quite handy.

The collections you can create are useful. The smart collections are also useful in a different way.

The documentation needs editing. I find bad English and misspelled words. There are no excuses for this. This is relatively costly software, and my expectations are for professional documentation.

I hope the developer takes the money I gave him for purchase and continues to improve the product. It has a lot going for it, but has a long way to go.

"Open Meta Support" sounds to me more like open support for the Meta app (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/35118/meta) than OpenMeta (http://code.google.com/p/openmeta) metadata support.

Mixed feelings.. could be great.. from its visual standpoint.. but I find it awkward.. I'd like the left sidebar to show me a tree view "FinderPop-style... as I have folders within folders (I imported loads of Bookmarks form Safari.. I mean loads..).. and be able to show folders at a chosen size... Way too big for me.. Also I'd like to only see first level bookmarks at the top level of a folder.. some contain folders and "loose" bookmarks and makes it hard for me to know which are at top level (even though "show subfolder content" is deactivated... isn't that what it is supposed to do.. only show top level.. well it does not work..). Also when I drag several bookmarks to another folder/collection, the cursor turns into a plus sign automatically.. but I want to move them not copy them most likely, for organizational purposes.. copying should require an Option Key press as any copying in the Finder.. Also only one collection/folder can be handled at once.. impossible to select several at the same time to move them.. Impossible to alphabetize the oder of top level folders.. they need to be moved manually one by one.. A lot of things that to me look not well thought-out.. Bookmacster is ugly as sin.. but much more realistic in terms of large amounts of Bookmarks to handle.. Too bad I've ben following Webbla's progress but cannot use it for my purposes :-( The best was URL-Manager Pro way back when.. but it died :-( And no-one made a better one yet.

Webbla runs great on my PPC 12" Powerbook. Just strange that it doesn't on my new iMac.

I used Sparkle to update but I had to force quit twice. I put 1.49 back and it works fine. I don't know what is wrong with the new version.

I had the same problem when downloading version 1.4.3. It wouldn't open. However, I sent an email to support- and, they got back to me the next day. Apparently, the 1.4.3 version is compiled as a 64-bit application- which has not opened on some systems. They directed me to this site- for version 1.4.2. It works! I'm a happy camper again. So, I give their Tech support an A+! However, they should have made note on this site (and others) of the potential difficulty with version 1.4.3. Or, waited to release it until it worked on all Intel systems running Leopard.

Where is, in 1.4, the CoverFlow view ? How can I activate it ? Because it seems to have disappeared from Webbla, I am really sad !