Freeware of the Moment- Google Browser Sync
I recently switched to Firefox as my browser of choice on the Fujitsu P1610 and have never looked back. It makes all the web work I do for jkOnTheRun much easier and the extensibility has turned the browsing experience on the Tablet PC into a very productive one. Yesterday when I was getting the new MacBook Pro ready it was really important for me to get my hundreds of browser bookmarks transferred from the Windows machines over to the Mac. I did a lot of online research for a good way to do that (using Safari, Camino, and Firefox on the Mac) but was coming up pretty dry when I remembered a free (read beta) utility from Google that purports to keep your bookmarks in Firefox synced across multiple computers. Google Browser Sync stores not only your bookmarks but optionally your cookies, history, and tabs/ windows on the Google servers. You install it first on the machine you want to sync everywhere, in my case the Windows device, and it uploads all that Firefox browsing information up to the server.
I then installed it on the Mac and in less than 5 minutes my entire Firefox environment was automatically synced to the Mac. Nothing could have been easier and now all my stuff stays synchronized on both platforms in Firefox. Google Browser Sync will also restore the last Firefox session no matter which PC you were using at the time so you can always start right where you left off, even if it was on a different computer. If you only have one PC Google Browser Sync can serve as a full backup of your Firefox environment so you never have to worry about it again. As for Safari and Camino, they both can import Firefox bookmarks so I now have all my stuff in those browsers too.
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I have been using browser sync for many months now without a hitch.
Lime most Google stiff it just wonks!
Yahoo toolbar syncs my bookmarks across platforms AND browsers. ;)
Ya i Sync my Firefox between, my mac book, eo, home desktop and work desktop. It works great!
I also use foldershare.com to sync one folder between all my pc’s, its great because everything just follows you around, no matter which machine you are on.
Wow, I liked it!
I’ve been using Foxmarks Bookmark Syncronizer for some months now. I had used Google Browser Sync in the past but it wasn’t very reliable. Things may have changed but when I used it, it had trouble syncing separators and just basically getting the bookmarks synced correctly.
Foxmarks just worked.
What’s really cool in Google Browser Sync for Firefox is the session saving. Earlier today I was getting the HP tc1100 ready to give to my wife by doing a clean install of Vista. It’s an older tablet so there were a couple of driver gotchas so I jumped on the TabletWiki and the HP driver page on two different tabs on the Fujitsu which was beside the HP. Later on I realized I forgot to check something but the Fujitsu was doing a backup so I couldn’t use it. I jumped on Firefox on the Mac, was presented with an option to resume my last Firefox session consisting of the two tabs above. It was so cool with one click on a different computer running a different OS to be back in my original session. GBS rocks!
So let me ask you something. Are we sure it’s ok to have our cookies, history and session habits stored “Out There” where god only knows that is and god only knows what’s being done with it. I am NOT an alarmist, probably default to being too trusting, but stuff like this makes me ask the experts.