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Google Browser Sync Source Released
AySz88 writes "Google has made an official announcement of their decision to discontinue Google Browser Sync. But it comes with a brighter side — its source code is now open and available."
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Have the plugin talk to a bucket at Amazon S3. Encrypt the data. Done.
Foxmarks does extremely well for addition of bookmarks, plus it even has a history of previous modifications so you can restore your own mistakes.
Wish I could have seen browser sync but its the same idea overall.
If only. I wish there was a plugin even close to the functionality of google browser sync (and now there might just be one)
Foxmarks comes up short because all it can sync is your bookmarks and nothing else. Same with everything else that isn't google bookmark sync so far, sadly.
I need syncing of not just bookmarks, but saved passwords in the encrypted store, saved cookies, and form data.
Having url and search history synced has been handy too, but not a feature i personally would complain about lacking. The saved passwords and form data however is a deal killer.
Yet it seems everyone else on slashdot has always shrugged off google browser sync saying such comments as yours, like 'its the same thing over all' where 'its' is always some plugin that has only one out of all the features the google plugin had.
While I recognize that Google Browser Sync was significantly more comprehensive than just bookmarks, I am surprised that no one bringing up bookmark-syncing replacements has brought up GMarks, a Firefox plugin that syncs with Google Bookmarks.
The link above is its addon page. Its features are listed here, and the project's homepage is here. I've used it for quite some time, and am satisfied with it. It's not amazingly earth-shatteringly innovative, but it gets the job done.