Firefox environment synchronization with FolderShare

Adam Pash's quest for full Firefox synchronization continues and he's oh-so-close to having exactly what he wants. Not content solely with synching bookmarks and passwords like you can with Google Browser Sync, Adam has discovered that Microsoft's FolderShare provides nearly everything he wants on either a PC or a Mac. With it, he's synchronizing nearly his entire Firefox profile which includes:

• Bookmarks
• Passwords
• Themes
• Extensions
• about:config settings (this is an awesome 'hidden' feature in FF)
• Greasemonkey scripts

About the only item Adam doesn't have synching yet is his browsing history; ironically, the also free Google Browser Sync does include that, so I'm sure it's just a matter of time before he finds the right method. If you've never used the free FolderShare application, Rob Bushway has a nice writeup from earlier this week as well.

Comments

[cr0ft]

While this might work to sync the profile info for Opera too (which would be quite cool for synching my browsers between home and work) I'm not wild about the fact that it is a server based service and that the EULA states that they "may look at what file names and sizes" I share. It also says they won't look at file contents... but how big a step can it be? :P

[Johnnull]

One thing to watch out for is how FolderShare affects your battery life on mobile devices. I found that when it running it was continuously polling my hard-drive which would prevent it from spinning down. Now, on my Q1 I only start it when I need to sync up, and shut it down otherwise.

To be honest, polling for file changes is poor programming. There are events for that kind of thing.