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Firefox 4

Firefox Sync Looks Cool, But...

Friday, March 25, 2011 - 03:45:25 pm
(Posted Under: Mozilla Firefox)
Firefox 4 is out this week. Of most interest to me is Firefox Sync, for synchronizing bookmarks (and what not) naively across multiple installations of Firefox - of which I have many.

From the outset I'm not overly impressed. Primarily, the setting up of a local server for syncing is not all that straight forward, and certainly not well documented. Aside from all the requirements, including a PHP and MYSQL installed (not that I don't have that), plus a bunch of specific PHP modules enabled, it far from works out of the box. That, and the fact that client seems fairly brain dead at the moment, it really puts the simplicity of Foxmarks/Xmarks - which is simply just a webdav enabled web server - into perspective.

Hopefully this will become better throughout the life cycle of Firefox 4. But for now I'm happier to stick with my issue free Xmarks setup. Which also isn't a sparkling recommendation for me to rush to upgrade to Firefox 4. I'll probably migrate faster than I did to Firefox 3 [wink], but it ain't gonna happen this week.

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