Weekend Project: Sync your Browser Settings Across Your Computers
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 and even OS. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions
Once installed, you can keep all your Firefox browsers in tune with each other with the same set of bookmarks, passwords, cookies, and so on. This can be a great help.
Browser Sync is operating system agnostic so for bi-OS fans it offers great convenience. Google Browser Sync is highly recommended for two reasons.
- The software is a Mozilla xpi file. This contains, in a Phil Katz Zip-compressed format, a JavaScript-based installer along with the program files. These programs work directly with Firefox, not your operating system.
- The heavy lifting of the synchronization function isn’t done on your PC at all. The actual work of storing and managing your settings is done on Google’s servers.
There, you have the option of selectively synchronizing your bookmarks, passwords, history, cookies, open windows, and tabs.
You also have the option of encrypting your data data (highly recommended for your passwords and confidential data) — only the encrypted data goes to Google’s servers. The decryption happens on your PC. The program also automatically encrypts your cookies, since an amazing amount of private information can be kept in cookies.
Once installed on both PCs, these systems automatically uploaded and synchronized their settings. The program avoided such pitfalls as duplicating identical bookmarks, etc. It also assumes that if you have the same bookmark in two different places, you want to keep both of them. It just won’t duplicate two of the same bookmark in the same folder.
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