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Google Browser Sync To Be Discontinued

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the going-gently-into-that-good-night dept.

Dude With An Afro writes "What could have been a great Google project is now history. For those who never used it, Google Browser Sync was a Firefox extension that synchronized your bookmarks, web history, browser sessions and passwords across multiple computers by temporarily saving them to Google's servers. According to the Google Browser Sync team: 'It was a tough call, but we decided to phase out support for Browser Sync. Since the team has moved on to other projects that are keeping them busy, we don't have time to update the extension to work with Firefox 3 or to continue to maintain it.' For all of those who fell in love with Google's Browser Sync, our only hope now is to resort to poorly maintained 3rd party extensions without Google's blessing." While it was undoubtedly a useful utility, the argument can also be made that it wasn't the most secure extension in the world, what with having your personal data kept on Google's servers and shot around the internet.

7 of 195 comments (clear)

  1. Foxmarks is great by JoelMeow · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think it's a little mean to refer to Foxmarks as a "poorly maintained 3rd party extension." I've been using it since before Google's browser sync existed, and I never bothered to try out Google's extension because Foxmarks worked perfectly. If you need a replacement, I would recommend checking them out.

  2. Re:Alternatives? by seriv · · Score: 5, Informative

    Look into foxmarks (assuming you use firefox). It works decently well, and it has firefox 3 support. I never switched to Google's thing, because foxmarks seemed better.

  3. So why not open source it? by molo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google should know better. Abandonware? Open source it! Then if people care they can upgrade it for FF3.

    -molo

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    Using your sig line to advertise for friends is lame.
  4. Mozilla Weave is working great for me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://labs.mozilla.com/featured-projects/#weave

    Syncs lots of things, including bookmarks.

  5. Mozilla Weave by beezly · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mozilla Weave does similar stuff... http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/12/introducing-weave/

    I've been using it for a while and it's pretty good, even though it's still under lots of development.

  6. Re:Fear not... by Tangent128 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure thing!

    In Firefox, go to http://link.opera.com/

  7. Re:Fear not... by Ambush+Commander · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have mod points, but I have to point out here that Opera Sync currently only works with your bookmarks and your speed dial, making it Opera's built-in equivalent of Foxmarks (which I myself have been using happily). It is no Google Browser Sync replacement.