John is a Salvation Army Corps Officer who likes computers, Radiohead and F1. He lives and works with his wife Marta in Gainsborough UK, and blogs at johnager.co.uk and johnager.org
I mentioned in my first post for this blog that I would detail more features that make Firefox my browser of choice, and especially the add-ons that enhance the whole web experience. Well, here is the first one about add-ons – although just one in particular!
I use a desktop PC at home and one in the office, I also have a work laptop PC. Firefox is installed on all three, but here’s the geeky bit, they are all synchronised! This is achieved with the Google Browser Sync add-on – here are a couple of screenshots of the options settings.
The add-on requires a Google account, so that the user’s cookies, saved passwords, bookmarks, browsing history, tabs, and open windows can be stored. The data is optionally encrypted using an alphanumerical PIN, and passwords and cookies are always encrypted.
Unfortunately it has not been updated for a while and does not work with Firefox 3 – but I won’t be changing over just yet, although I’m hoping to try out the portable version of Firefox 3 soon. You can download and install Google Browser Sync by clicking here!
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Hmm – the lack of support for Firefox 3 is a bit of a showstopper for me. Really liking the Firefox 3 beta, and I’m kind of hesitant to go back to FF2.
I’m hoping they’ll get it updated in time for FF3 coming out of beta.
Google have just announced that this add-on is being discontinued! They will support on FF2 until the end of 2008.
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