How about syncing extensions ?
a syncing extension addon for foxmark would be cool, because I primary use a mac or a pc and firefox profile isn't compatible on the extensions side
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We have several ideas regarding other browser items to synchronize, but we haven't settled on which to implement next. Of the following list, how would you prioritize the importance of being able to synchronize? Are any absolutely critical? Are any completely unnecessary?
Bookmarks
History
Cookies
Passwords
Form Data
Extensions
Open tabs
Open windows
Search History
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1. bookmarks
2. passwords
3. extensions
4. custom configurations
at the moment only FEBE fills the gap but i have to carry the backup in my usb key. not very convenient.
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@Eric, I think all your ideas are good.
Search history and form data are probably lower priority, but could be good as options.
I think sync'ing open tabs and windows is a must. After I shut down my work laptop, I like to go back to where I was when I get home. I used Google browser sync for a while, but it was a bit buggy - Foxmarks is better for bookmarks, GBS saved sessions and windows... (Looks like the source code is available too)
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Inappropriate?We have several ideas regarding other browser items to synchronize, but we haven't settled on which to implement next. Of the following list, how would you prioritize the importance of being able to synchronize? Are any absolutely critical? Are any completely unnecessary?
Bookmarks
History
Cookies
Passwords
Form Data
Extensions
Open tabs
Open windows
Search History
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1) History, passwords, open tabs and windows
2) cookies
3) Form data, extensions -
1. Extensions
2. History
3. Passwords (although personally not needed as I use Roboform which I LOVE and hence don't need anything else to sort out passwords. Roboform uses Goodsync to sync the files needed when using USB sticks etc.
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Synchin open tabs would be great. Usually have about a dozen tabs open in firefox at work (if I close 'em I forget em!!!) - Joe. -
Joe, you could just do a "Bookmark all tabs" and save in a predefined folder - "Open Tabs" seems like an obvious name. Foxmarks will sync it and then you can just go to another machine and "Open all in Tabs" on that folder. Of course, this is a manual process. Also, you lose page navigation functions ("Back" button), so it's not like recreating the session. -
I would put these in this order :
Bookmarks
Extensions/Add-Ons
Themes
Form Data
Cookies
Passwords
Search History
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extensions and its options!!! -
1) Extensions, hands down.
2) General Firefox settings (how tabs behave, security settings, home page, application behavior, etc)
3) Search History
4) History
5) Bookmarks / passwords
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1. Open tabs (absolutely must for me, work-home issue)
2. Extensions
3. Cookies
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I found this tread while looking for a way to synchronize the NoScript extension automatically.
(mainly the whitelist info stored in the file prefs.js)
1)NoScript data. Finding a way to automatically synchronize these settings between different computers and different users would be gold and tops my list.
1) NoScript data.
2) Bookmarks (already done)
3)Extensions
4)History
5)Passwords (done)
6)Cookies
7)Form Data
8)Open tabs
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Priorities for backup and synchronization:
(1) Bookmarks (DONE). Essentially impossible to recreate in toto from scratch.
(2) "Non-extension" Firefox customizations (non-default settings in Firefox Options, about:config, userChrome.css, search engines, etc.). Very difficult to remember and time-consuming to replicate from scratch.
(3) Extension options. A time-consuming hassle to replicate manually.
Priority of individual extensions' options:
(a) Speed Dial. Custom groups and dials can be almost as hard as bookmarks to remember and recreate from scratch.
(b) NoScript. Site permissions are a major, time-consuming hassle to re-enter manually.
(c) GreaseMonkey. Scripts can be a major, time-consuming hassle to re-install manually.
(d) Tab Mix Plus. "Muscle memory" of tab behavior is highly dependent on customized settings; a moderate hassle to remember and recreate manually.
(4) Extensions. A potentially time-consuming hassle to remember and install from scratch.
(5) Cookies. A moderate hassle to re-enter passwords and rebuild things like site preferences and shopping carts from scratch.
(6) Passwords (DONE). A moderate hassle to retrieve and re-enter.
(7) Open tabs and windows. Inconvenient or impossible to recreate manually on a second computer; manual workarounds exist (session bookmarks), but automation is better.
(8) History. Sometimes useful to have on hand.
(9) Form data. Inconvenient to re-enter manually.
(10) Search History. Sometimes useful to have on hand.
(11) Themes. Slightly inconvenient to remember and install a non-default theme from scratch.
Many thanks for a great extension and for the Foxmark team's exemplary responsiveness!
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I absolutely love this extension. I now have Firefox and IE sync up on my PC what I would really appreciate is a Safari version for the PC.
Also I agree with PCMartin's requests but if you can't do them all here are my preferences.
1) History, open tabs and windows
2) cookies (This is a maybe)
3) extensions
I use RoboForm and have for years wouldn't know what to do without it considering I manage over 100 websites for clients. Not sure if it would be wise to trust all my passwords to an online service. (no offense). -
Synced history is crucial to me. I use GMane and Nabble to read mailing lists and they rely on browser history as the only mechanism to determine what messages I've already read. -
Inappropriate?@Eric, for me there are 3 essential productivity features:
0.Bookmarks+icons <-- (well done foxmarks!)
1.Cookies/passwords
2.Extensions (a big one but would be soo cool! maybe a viable alternative would be a simple database capable of installaling/desinstalling extension)
the others are just somefancy sync features but some are important too:
3.homepage(s)
4.history
the unnecessary:
form data
open tabs
open windows
search history
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Inappropriate?Great, thanks for your input! If anyone else has an opinion on this, please chime in--we vastly prefer to hear people's preferences BEFORE we embark on adding in new features. :)
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Inappropriate?@Eric, I think all your ideas are good.
Search history and form data are probably lower priority, but could be good as options.
I think sync'ing open tabs and windows is a must. After I shut down my work laptop, I like to go back to where I was when I get home. I used Google browser sync for a while, but it was a bit buggy - Foxmarks is better for bookmarks, GBS saved sessions and windows... (Looks like the source code is available too)
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Inappropriate?I think that the most important thing to sync now with Fx 3's awesomebar is history, when that's working I think that cookies and passwords would be great.
After that things like tabs and open windows, form data and extensions are just bonuses for me. -
Inappropriate?- Obviously bookmarks, passwords would help, but I use another FF extension for that so I'm not sure if that would be helpful or not...
- Extensions would be handy! (How frustrating is it to be used to an extension on one computer, only to forget what it's called every time you're in front of your other computer!)
- I'd definitely use open tabs/history a lot but this probably isn't priority since in FF you can "Save all open to folder" and "sync" open tabs/history that way...
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Inappropriate?Mandatory for me from most important to less important:
Bookmarks
Open tabs
Cookies
Passwords
Form Data
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Inappropriate?1. bookmarks
2. passwords
3. extensions
4. custom configurations
at the moment only FEBE fills the gap but i have to carry the backup in my usb key. not very convenient.
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FEBE's only a partial solution to the problem... The best way is saving the data somewhere online, allowing you to access it anywhere. -
I would add form data to your list. -
The new FEBE supports automatic box.net backup and storage but where I live box.net CRAWLS. It's a good site, but needs better mirroring management. -
Inappropriate?I added this idea myself and then someone told me it was already added :) - so... it's a GREAT idea. Personally, it's the extensions I now want, although there is such an easy way to copy these as a one-off (just copy the files from the Firefox profile to the new computer) that I guess by the time you code it, it won't be SO necessary as right now.
But being able to sync new add-ins invisibly would be very cool indeed. I guess this couldn't be done quite as invisibly as with the bookmarks as adding new extensions requires a restart of the browser...
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Inappropriate?Extension sync would be awesome! Of course, that would require config sync as well. Passwords and cookies sync would be great too. So, personally I'd love to see:
1) Extensions
2) Config
3) Passwords
4) Cookies
5) Form data
I heard there's an extension that does synchronise addons, but only between machines, it doesn't store it online for user to get (or does it?).
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Inappropriate?1) Extensions
2) Config
3) Cookies
That would be absolutely perfect (for me at least)!
I’m delighted that you are considering this!
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Inappropriate?In this order of relevance to me:
1) Bookmarks - done.
2) Passwords - done.
3) Cookies
4) FF Extensions w/ settings and *especially* profiles for extensions
5) FF Search Engines
6) FF Configurations
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97) Form data (don't use)
98) History (don't use)
99) Search history (I only search things once...)
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I really think it would be overkill to sync everything. Just to much data; history comes to mind.
Bookmarks, passwords, search engines. These are the most important things. Saving extensions and settings would also be great :) -
Inappropriate?I'm surprised of the amount of people that doesn't see the utility of historysync now that we have the awesomebar. I would easily put that in front of extensions (which I would think is much more complex than history). Cookies and configurations is also on my list of things I would like, the rest is just bonuses with no real use to me.
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I second that. Also, being able to search browser history is incredibly useful. I have been trying to find something that does it well for firefox for ages (Infoaxe does it, but not well). It would be really great if you implement this feature soon as well. As for these extra features being too much for some people, there is already an option to turn certain syncs off so there is no problem there. -
Inappropriate?Some discussion on this subject was put forth at http://getsatisfaction.com/foxmarks/t.... It was suggested that we move it over here. Anyone have any thoughts as to what was suggested in that thread?
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To be specific, I was suggesting the off-topic comments about synchronizing extensions had a better home here. Sorry for the confusion! :) -
Inappropriate?Yes, Eric, I understood that. I guess I should have been more specific on the topic I was referring to.
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Inappropriate?I use 6 computers on a regular basis. Being able to keep my extension list in sync would be HUGE!
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Inappropriate?1. History
2. History
3. History
4. History
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Inappropriate?see my comment here:http://getsatisfaction.com/foxmarks/topics/password_synchronization_beta_what_do_you_think#reply_632040
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Inappropriate?1. bookmarks
2. passwords
3. extensions
4. custom configurations
5. sessions
I am trying to sync a laptop, smartphone, work desktop and home/office desktop.
What a pain in the A**. How does everybody else keep their files and apps synced?
Currently I am syncing Firefox through Foxmarks and syncing my personal files and such through Activesync and Treo 800w. I am not satisfied with Activesync so far. I am also using splashID and splashmoney to get other info. It just seems that it would be nice to keep these synced at all times over the internet with 1 application controlling and updating their respective files and databases. Or use a concept like OpenID maybe but expand to support several applications.
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Inappropriate?Foxmarks now syncs my bookmarks and passwords. Great. Now, I have Firefox on a desktop pc, a laptop, a work pc and portableapps. And I use quite many extensions. They are a pain to keep in sync.
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Inappropriate?Definitely the open tabs or windows would rule. Shutting down a work PC, going home and having all my tabs open already would be awesome do that first for sure!
After that, go the extensions sync.
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Inappropriate?Here's my list.
Open Tabs
Open Windows
Extensions
Form Data
History
i agree with Trebek that it would be really nice to be able to save my Firefox session from work, then either switch to my laptop or come home to one of my desktops there and open that session.
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Inappropriate?The only problem with opening a session at home that was saved at work is that many of my open tabs are generally internal to the company and wouldn't be accessible from a home machine. It's not really an issue to me as I carry my laptop home with me but I bet many people would have this problem. There would also be an issue with whether to open the locally stored session or an FM saved session.
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Inappropriate?Back on topic - syncing extensions. I can see how offering this service could get messy. Maybe the keepers of FM could present some requirements for extensions before they can be sync'ed such as dropping a FM.sync file (xml?) that informs FM what needs to be done in order to perform the syncronization. I think that this capability would become wildly popular with FM users and developers would be willing to do this.
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Inappropriate?Yeah sync'ing should be relatively easy if all youre having to manage is the record of what extensions are installed (version et al) and then defer to the original install location (mozilla or other) to atcually install them...
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Inappropriate?I join the "vote for extensions" group. Extensions are the main reason for everybody to use Firefox over Chrome, so extensions are a must.
There's a catch for this: we'd need not only extensions but also its configuration to be synched.
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Hi Nacho,
I disagree with you, not only is it not a must it is not required. All I want is for my list of extensions to be named. I would let the normal firefox extension update mechanism take care of the rest.
Ideally, it would be nice to be able to remove some extensions from being used. Let's say you use a dubious extension at home (for say downloading films P2P), well it would be nice to tell the sync mechanism to NOT sync that one extension. -
Inappropriate?Well, for me, I give up on this idea. Because when i submit this idea for firefox i haven't tried chromium but chromium feels so smooth and speedy VS firefox, i couldn't think about develloping for firefox is the right way...
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Hmm. Is it really likely that Google will ever enable messing with ads and banners and such? Doubt it.
Chrome is developed and handled by a firm that profits solely from web ads. Enabling script/iframe/ad blockers seems like their worst nightmare.
So, slick as it may be, the only truly & fully open-source and therefore user-biased browser would be Firefox. -
Hi Dee,
I don't quite agree with you on this one: let me explain:
Google profits massively from ads, this is true, in fact I would love to know their daily income from ads, but one thing puts google far above the competition. They pride themselves on having non-intrusive ads, so no banners and no flashing gimmicks just a line of text placed smartly on a webpage, or a text column dedicated to paying subscribers (on google search). The number of times I have used GMail and simply not noticed the ads is amazing.
As such I do not believe they have anything against blocking banners, in fact if they suppress the blocking of banners they might lose customers.
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Inappropriate?Yeah doesn't have to be complicated, just manage the list of addons, including some metadada (their version and install/update URLs for instance) and then foxmarks can simply comapre this against the local state and call the Firefox extension uninstall/install APIs for the required merge/sync actions. Not very hard.
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John, I don't think that extension synchronization at that level is even worthwhile. Someone on another thread suggested this, and this is what I do. I have a bookmarks folder that contains links to the download sites of all of the extensions that I use. When I go to a new machine, I just download Foxmarks, sync, then "open all in tabs" on that folder. Pretty simple to quickly plow through the installation that way. But extensions like Tabmix Plus introduce quite a few configuration options, and that is what can become time consuming. And, of course, I can never remember which options to check, so I end up with the browser behaving differently. So I think the real value is not just automating the install of the extensions but also the configuration of those extensions. But syncing just the install would be a good place to start. -
Hi John and JD,
That was an interesting point made, JD, in fact the answer is simpler than you think. The thing to sync in this case is NOT the extension or its settings rather you want to sync the ENTIRE set of variables within firefox. Whilst this might seem daunting at first, it really is (AFAIK) just a list of key/value pairs in text form. If THAT could be synced (and there is no reason why not) you can sync the entire browser in one fell swoop. Great idea actually.
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I see what you are saying. You are talking about the values that are displayed in the about:config page are you not? I wasn't even aware that extensions stored their configuration data in there, but I checked a couple and found the extension configuration options in there. This is apparently stored in the prefs.js file in the profile folder. Hmmm..... -
Ok, I just stumbled across FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension). This might just perform the extension synchronization functions inasmuch as it will export your preferences. It lacks the capability of making them available on-line and automatic syncronization. See also the description of the companion extension, CLEO: "CLEO will package all your backed up extensions and themes into a single, installable .xpi file."
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FEBE 6.1 beta has an online integration agreement with box.net for online backup/restore. so this can solve the online sync across multiple devices for FF extensions. -
Thanks dekky1. I installed it and dug into it's capabilities a little bit. It looks like it holds some promise. The companion extension, OPIE, is the piece that syncs extension preferences. As Phillo pointed out, these are typically stored along with other FF variables in the prefs.js file. I need to spend a little more time with it. One thing that seems to be lacking is automation. With FM, I pretty much configure it and forget about it. It just happens. FEBE is a manual or scheduled process. However, it does show that syncing extensions along with preferences is very possible. Ideally this functionality would be integrated with FM and happen automatically, just like bookmark synchronization. -
Using a list of bookmarks to remember what extensions you have isn't a bad idea, but it's not really a solution. I use Foxmarks because I'm lazy :).
I don't try to remember my passwords or my bookmarks and I'd probably forget to keep the bookmark folder that contains the extensions updated.
The FEBE way is ok, but it might turn into a mess. Some extensions don't work on Windows, some don't work on Mac OS. What if you accidentally install an extension that does not work in one OS? You might crash Firefox; you might just break something and not even know it's not working correctly (for instance, some themes stop showing different elements of the UI if they aren't designed for a particular version of Firefox or for a particular OS). -
Inappropriate?JD, fair comment re the difficulties of trying to manage third-party/proprietary data stores and configs. extensions can do what they like when it comes to this i guess and, without a firefox enforced standard API for config management, no third-party such as Foxmarks is gonna be able to manage them effectively. then again some of that extension config stuff is going to be machine specific (e.g. drive assignments, paths, other installed programmes, etc) so maybe its best left unmanaged?...
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Inappropriate?I second the idea JD had as brilliant: merely syncing the install locations of all add-ons... very smart!! Will do that until FM decides to do something about it in their great tool!
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Inappropriate?In fact something I have always thought would be great is sharing your own list of addons with friends. Doing it JDs way is excellent: you can drag and drop the bookmark folder into your mail application (try it if you haven't, it is superb) to get a list of all locations hyperlinked in the mail. NICE...
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Inappropriate?The most valuable extension to sync is NoScript.
As you visit the web, you are making decisions about who to trust and who not to trust. You have to do that all over again with each browser that isn't synchronized.
For quadruple bonus points, you could share your choices with other people...
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Inappropriate?I tend to use my browsers for different things and don't want certain things synced. For example, I really don't want to sync most of these things between work and home computers. II honestly can't see the need to sync Cookies. How does that help me. I don't even want my History synced - even between home computers, and if it was an option I'd turn it off. I definitely don't want Form Data synced. I would also disable that - given the option. I don't want Open tabs or Open Windows synced.
I do however want my extenstions synced - very much so. This is my top wish. I would also want most of my browser settings synced - including those for the plugins I want synced.
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Well, just because you don't want it doesn't mean it isn't a good idea to have it as an option. For Form Data I would really recommend Roboform, as it very securely stores passwords and links username, website and password in one file (encrypted). So if I click the Ebay link, it starts a new tab, opens the login page for Ebay and logs me in, all from the one click... genius!! And the personal data function is way better than the others I have seen.
As for syncing only some bookmarks that is already implemented in the profiles part of Foxmarks, set up two profiles, one for work bookmarks and one for private ones and then just use different profiles at different locations. Personally I don't mind mixing both and just collapsing the folders I am not using. Of course if you have some really dirty bookmarks... ;) -- I can see the need.
And until extensions are synced I can only suggest doing what another user here suggested. Bring up all the install pages of your add-ins and save them into one bookmarks folder. If you get to a fresh computer setup foxmarks to get the bookmarks and then open that folder to new tabs and install them all. Simple!! -
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Inappropriate?1. Search Engines
2. Extensions
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Inappropriate?For me in this order
1. Bookmarks
2. Cookies / Passwords
3. Extensions
4 Home Page (Start Page)
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Inappropriate?I don't think to implement the synchronizing extensions is very easy. Think of the size of extension addons. For me total size of addons could be about 7MB. So Foxmark must create a huge server for all addons and all people. Sometimes one addon could have several version. And the big size of addons lead to slow network speed.
But there are another solution for synchronizing addons. That is only synchronizing the name of addon and where the addon comes from (home web for this addon). This could be much more easy to implement and the data to synchronize would be very small. If this was the case the newest version of addons and network speed problems would be resolved also. -
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Inappropriate?This is now solving a large number of my problems. It uses 256bit AES encryption and can sync across multiple computers using a browser based interface.
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lsegalla: Check out this other topic about synchronizing of Thunderbird data:
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Inappropriate?If Extention are synch, it would be important to be OS independant.
At work I'm forced to use Windows but at home I use Linux. I have most the same extention but some (like ietabs) only works on Win. As noted before, Extention without there configs is a bit less interesting.
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Inappropriate?same for me... i use both win, linux and osx too
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Inappropriate?It seems that we have alot of people suggesting wildy different things, but one thing I have learnt is that the simpler the solution the better all round.
To that end, I think the syncing of extensions should go NO further than to retain a list of names of extensions WITHOUT version number. If you add an extension at work, when you come home the client will realise that the server holds a new name and will then trigger the extension installation process (which I am sure is a standard function of firefox API). So coming to think of it, you need to store the name AND URL of all extensions so that the client knows where to get the new extension from.
Don't bother about syncing the state of them. I think it is safe to assume that the user will always want the latest version of an extension where possible.
Slight edit to this posting: At installation time, the user should of course get asked whether he wants to sync. So things like IETab will not get synced to Linux clients. So you probably want to hold a list of Extension exceptions on each client too.
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I agree with this view, in fact mozilla recommend when migrating profiles that if there are any problems the first thing you do is remove prefs.js. I think for security reasons only urls from addons.mozilla.org should be synced and installation should take place through the normal firefox UI, nothing happening without user intervention.
My list:
History
Search plugins including keywords and menu order
Extensions
Don't care about:
Cookies
Forms
Seatch history
Tabs / windows / sessions
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Inappropriate?Here is my list...
1. Search Engines (a new one for the list)
2. Extensions
3. Cookies / Form Data (they go hand in hand)
4. History / Search History (also hand in hand)
5. Open tabs / Open windows
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Inappropriate?Want:
0. Bookmarks
1. Cookie Exception List (new idea)
2. Search Engines
Do not want/would not use:
Any temporary or browser generated data
History
Cookies
Passwords
Form Data
Extensions
Open tabs
Open windows
Search History
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Inappropriate?Excelent ideas guys. I especially like the syncing open tabs and settings. I just emailed the foxmarks support team about syncing passwords one way as well. The advantage of syncing one way would be that you can pull down the passwords to a portable usb install and then clear them all at the end of the session so if you loose the drive it won't have your passwords on it.
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Inappropriate?Excelent ideas guys. I especially like the syncing open tabs and settings. I just emailed the foxmarks support team about syncing passwords one way as well. The advantage of syncing one way would be that you can pull down the passwords to a portable usb install and then clear them all at the end of the session so if you loose the drive it won't have your passwords on it.
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Inappropriate?There's a problem with syncing open tabs. If I have open tabs both at home and at work, what's going to happen to all of them? Should all of them be displayed? Should you just show the last opened tabs? Maybe I don't want to see my home tabs opened at work or my work tabs opened at home...
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Inappropriate?That's what the profiles are for. default/home shows the tabs and work doesn't. Not all of us only work at "work" ; ) (ie students). I spend a lot of time in the GIS lab at my school waiting for the computer to finish rendering images. I also have a job that I do from home. The tabs would show up when I open the "home" profile, but not for the "work" profile when I'm at school/on a field call I can work or play depending on the Foxmarks profile associated with the FF profille I open. Also I have separate FF profiles on individual computers. It's helpful to have a profile on laptops that you only use for hotspot logins so there aren't 20 tabs redirecting. FYI easy way to open different FF profile from shortcut is firefox -P <profilename> , might be firefox /p <profile name="true"> in windows.</profile></profilename>
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Inappropriate?I would like to sea these sync in Foxmarks:
1. Open Tabs (must have for me)
2. Extensions
3. Cookies
4. Passwords
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Inappropriate?In an ideal world, I'd simply like to install/run firefox on any machine and have it look and feel exactly as I'm used to. Naturally this includes extensions. I'm not sure if this is ideal now that foxmarks supports other browsers like Chrome etc. But for us die hard firefox fans, I think it would be well worth it.
Keeping open tabs for me has no use since I don't want tabs from home opening at work nor tabs at work opening at home. (In case I'm searching for a better job!) Cookies would be good for sites that require me to log in all the time. I guess if all options are added then it simply needs configuring to work how one requires.
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Inappropriate?Techotoddy, Where have you been?
1.Foxmarks has profiles functionality to separate work and home life.
2.Also, passworks/ID syncing feature has been around for awhile.
RTM.
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Inappropriate?1. Open tabs (absolutely must for me, work-home issue)
2. Extensions
3. Cookies
4. Passwords
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I've been monitoring this thread for some tie now, and apparently many people seem to yearn for session syncing ("open tabs").
Unlike the other items on that priority list, this is already partially solved once you can sync bookmarks.
It may require a small manual labour, but all you have to do when you're done with your workday (or whatever) is to save all tabs to a bookmark folder (an option that comes with Firefox from the box) - and that's that. Since bookmarks are automatically synced with Foxmarks anyways, you can go back home and re-open everything.
Now here;s the thing - some people (me included) might have two (or more) Firefox sessions open on different computers, with Foxmarks sync working in the background and compare the two.
Syncing open tabs, however, would probably turn out to be quite a problem to maintain with this type of workflow. The only possibility (except havng random tabs appearing and disappearing during work) would be to do so at browser shutdown only - which would only be able to save the tabs from the browser that was closed *last*.
I hope I'm not blabbering. If I am - sorry for wasting your time. I'm only trying to avoid a state in which developers would waste valuable time over something that can be worked around quite easily. -
Inappropriate?Please add Google Chrome to the Bookmark synching pleasure!!!! I'm a "web-devceloper" and I'm constantly across all the different browsers, one of which is chrome, so I'd like to be able to synch bookmarks on that as well! Thanks!
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Inappropriate?1) Extensions
2) Firefox setting
3) Cookies
4) History
I’m Excited if you allow extension sync
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Inappropriate?1. Search plugins
2. Search plugins
3. Search plugins
4. Form Data
5. Cookies
6. Extensions
7. Search History
I’m hapy, if you add searchplugin-sync!
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Inappropriate?1. bookmarks
2. extensions
3. passwords
4. custom configurations
I think it is a very important thing to synchronize extensions and their configurations.
We use foxmarks to centralize bookmarks around the world, but we need access to our extensions too.
If we can syncronize bookmarks and extensions, so the mayor problem of use firefox centralized will be solved.
Thanks
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?Synchronising extension for safari windows platfrom browser
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Inappropriate?When are you planning to launch another release with any of these ideas? Personally, I'm waiting for the extension synchronizer.
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?1 down, mainly 1 more to go (that would be AdBlock):
"Improved Backup NoScript configuration in a bookmark for easy synchronization feature, to be enabled in NoScript Options|General. It allows replicating NoScript preferences and permissions across multiple computers using a bookmark syncrhonization service such as Mozilla Weave or the XMarks extension."
(Source: NoScript <http://noscript.net/?ver=1.9.2.6&prev...>
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Inappropriate?I would like it if you were allowed to pick selective extensions, such as the bookmark profiles. For example, I don't have any use for some addons for the portable FIrefox I have on my USB drive (for school) as the servers are blocked.
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Inappropriate?Another thing to sync:
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Inappropriate?I vote for Search plugins / search engines (with keywords). This is the only thing I feel is missing from this excellent service.
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Inappropriate?In this order of relevance to me:
1) Bookmarks - done.
2) Passwords - done.
3) Cookies
4) FF Extensions w/ settings and *especially* profiles for extensions
5) FF Search Engines
6) FF Configurations
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97) Form data
98) History
99) Search history
100) Open Tabs
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Inappropriate?My order is:
1. Cookies
2. Search Engines
3. Extensions with settings and profiles
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Inappropriate?For all you folks interested in extension synchronization, Mozilla's announced a new feature that works very similar to what you're looking for:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire...
Once you create a Collection of all your favorite extensions, you can use a bookmark of that collection to easily install a slew of extensions all at once, or use the Collector add-on to simplify.
Give it a spin and let Mozilla know your thoughts!
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Thanks for the quick tip, Eric!
However, it seems that it doesn't support add-on's definitions/settings (as far as I see in its homepage) + yet another potential privacy hogger.
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Inappropriate?It would be really GREAT, at least instead of syncing all extension files; sync only "what extensions are installed?" and the .prefs file for their preferences. Like "you have adblock [prefs.file] and xmarks [prefs.file] installed", then I go to another computer, install xmarks and it tells me "do you want to install adblock and xmarks?" and I'd be like Yeah :D
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Inappropriate?Bookmarks - done
Open tabs - done?
Extensions
Cookies
Passwords - done
Form Data
not important to me:
Search History
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Inappropriate?Bookmarks
Open tabs
Open windows
Extensions
History
Passwords
Cookies
Form Data
Search History (google does this for me)
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Inappropriate?I love xmarks!
I came here to suggest sychnoisation of extensions installed and found this thread. My main interest is to be able to install Firefox on a new machine, then install xmarks and then be able to use Firefox with all of my personal customisations in place. For me, the only thing stopping me having this is the synchronisation of extensions. I don't really care about the data generated by Firefox itself (i.e. search/form history etc).
I can see issues in syncronisation of open windows, I leave Firefox running on my home and work PC, if I use it at home over the weekend, I do not want to see all of the rubbish I was looking at from home on my work version and vice-versa.
Here is my priority list:
Bookmarks - Already done
Passwords - Already done
Extensions
History
Search History
Form Data
Open tabs/windows
Cookies
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Inappropriate?Extensions syncro please as a priority
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Inappropriate?Extensions !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Inappropriate?My list is:
Bookmarks
Extensions
Form Data
Passwords
Cookies
History
Open Tabs
Search History
Open windows
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?As useful it may be to sync the entire browser state, Mozilla's Weave is already working on that, but for Firefox only. So I believe foxmarks would gain from using Weave's data and spreading it to other browsers, joining forces with Weave, rather than trying to replicate its effort and extend on it. My 2 cents.
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Inappropriate?1. Bookmarks
2. Passwords
3. Extensions
4. History
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Inappropriate?1a. own server :p
1. Bookmarks
2. Passwords
3. Form Data
4. History
5. Cookies
6. Tabs
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?Bookmarks
Passwords
Extensions
(anything else is gravy)
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Inappropriate?History!
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Inappropriate?What's going on on this front? Can we look forward to any new syncing options soon?
I’m mildly frustrated
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Inappropriate?1. Bookmarks
2. Passwords
3. Extensions
4. Open tabs
5. Open windows
6. History
7. Search History
8. Form Data
9. Cookies
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?1.Bookmarks
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Inappropriate?It would be useful to also have a "profile" concept for add-ons / extensions synch (like for bookmarks). Besides, the synch process would need to detect compatibility issues (there may be different versions of browsers and add-on installed ?)
Besides, my vote would be:
1. Bookmarks
2. Search engines
3. Shortcuts (one letter in address bar I use to shortcut to search engine)
4. Extensions
5. Open tabs (within a same profile)
6. Search and visited sites history
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Inappropriate?As much as I love XMarks, pretty soon it's going to be outstripped (at least on Firefox) by Weave if there aren't some new sync features added.
The one thing that they're both missing, and the one I feel is most important behind bookmarks and passwords, is cookies.
I’m frustrated
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