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Google Open Sources Browser Sync

Posted by samzenpus on from the free-for-all dept.

Dan Berlin writes "After announcing that Browser Sync was being discontinued, a lot of people asked for Google to open source the code so development could continue. Well, they've done just that. The code for browser sync is now available on code.google.com, and a blog post about the release can be found on the Google open source blog"

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  1. dupe by stiller · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/30/2036213

  2. Re:Server by hansraj · · Score: 5, Informative

    But with your data encrypted, why do you need to trust anyone? For you it is the state of your browser, passwords etc, but for anyone else it is random bits.

    Doesn't Browser sync already supports encrypting your data? Even if it doesn't I am sure this capability can be added now that it is open-source.

  3. Wow by Cloud+K · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm sure there have been other examples, but this is the first and possibly only example I can think of of a company *actually responding* to requests for a discontinued product to be open-sourced. Let alone actually going ahead and doing it.

    Bravo Google :)

  4. Re:When google by daveime · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's a nice little add on for Firefox called "Live HTTP Headers", which shows all requests made from the browser. This includes the actual request by Flash to fetch the FLV file, so you get the full URL of the request, paste it back into the address bar, and choose save as file. Easy.

    Let the FLV pr0n downloads begin.

  5. Re:I really liked it. by naich · · Score: 3, Informative

    Foxmarks is OK for syncing bookmarks, but GBS also synced your history, open tabs, passwords (if you were brave enough) and cookies. Having a synced history and cookies was very useful because you could stay logged in to the same sites across any GBS'd computer.

  6. Re:Server by shvytejimas · · Score: 3, Informative

    Have a look at Passhash add-on for firefox. You only need to remember a single strong master password; the add-on generates different passwords for each site, according to their URL (or site tag).
    In cases where the add-on is not locally available, there is a static html page with javascript with the same functionality, that you can host on your home server.