Sync Firefox Profiles

Posted by Martin in Browsing, firefox  Tags: ,

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I’m using Firefox on my desktop computer and on my Toshiba notebook. They have been running independently for some time until I realized that it would make more sense to sync the Firefox profiles to use the same bookmarks, passwords and cookies on both computers.

The Google Browser Sync extension - which I discovered at the Firefox Mastery website - is the best solution in my situation. It requires an Google account but makes it very easy to sync the data between computers. All you need to do is to install the Google Browser Sync add-on on all computers that you use Firefox and let it sync Bookmarks, Cookies, Passwords, History and Windows automatically.

Data is encrypted to make sure that no one will be able to spy on that data while syncing it. I especially like that this is an automated process that is started whenever Firefox is started. No need to configure scheduled synchronizations using external applications, it’s all there already.

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It does not even matter if you use different operating systems because the extension works on all of them.


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Kip says, December 14th, 2007   

Or use Febe and leave Google out of the loop
http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions/febe/febe.html

iAnon says, December 14th, 2007   

Cool find Martin. I too use a Toshiba notebook along with my main desktop computer and this will really help me out. As a web developer I have 4 browsers running on both and it is a pain keeping them all updated so this will go some way to alleviating that.

tash says, December 14th, 2007   

I’ve loved google’s browser sync since it came out :D
The only problem is it isn’t working with the Firefox 3.0 beta yet.. But other than that, it’s great.

在不同电脑上将Firefox的Profile同步化 » Ghacks CN says, December 15th, 2007   

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Google Browser Syncronisation extension | Whatsup says, January 9th, 2008   

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MrProfiles says, April 22nd, 2008   

Its a nice firefox extension if you rely on only one user profile. I like to switch to a different profile. For example Personal Profiles (Shopping Profile, Finances Profile, Education Profile) , or Work Profiles (Parts Profile, Computers Profile, Other Profile). I do not see any way to configure it that with one google account. I would need to create 5 to 10 diffrent gmail accounts to save every profiles unique diffrences.

This would be a pain !

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