The first time I read about this, I got a bit excited. Since I’m using 2 PCs and a laptop at home, I may be able to synch all of the Firefox browsers whichever workstation I work with (or so I thought).
Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.
Naturally, I installed it on my laptop first so I could copy it over to the other two desktop PCs. But then, all I get is a very very long load time with Firefox and some errors with other conflicting Firefox extensions (i.e. Session Manager).
So, after a day of trying with no luck, I removed it. Better wait next week until they fix this:
Please note: Google Browser Sync must update your browser settings whenever you start Firefox. This will increase the start-up time of Firefox (the time between clicking on the Firefox icon and loading your start page) – please bear with us as we work to decrease this delay.
Or until the other more important Firefox extensions post an update to resolve the conflicts.
[tags]Firefox, Mozilla, Plugins, FOSS[/tags]
I found the usefulness meager, at best. It did move my bookmarks from one FF to the FF on another machine. Didn’t sync or attaermpt to sync my exstensions. What is _should_ do (in fairness, it doesn’t claim to do) is to allow me to have two instances of FF open in the same network .. the way I normally work. I can’t be the only geek wannabe who works on two machines at once.
What’s really needed is a plugin that will sync while copies are open. The present plugin is, sad to say the same as anumber of recent Google projects, not quite ready for prime time. I would expect a much more polished product from them.