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Google Open Sources Browser Sync
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"
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/30/2036213
What server will you trust?
I can't imagine a company that actually does what the public asks? They must have a secret agenda!
It's all fun & games until someone loses the game.
If they're not going to develop it any further, they might as well let someone else have a go. Now all we have to do is convince Microsoft to release the source code to Windows ME.
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I use a bunch of machines all over the place (mostly for development/personal interest). I use old machines, dial-up, new machines, servers - having browser sync was a god-send. It was great to be able to reference everything regardless of architecture and O/S. I agree that there are concerns about what Google would/could reveal to legislative bodies, but that's only because they are so huge that other factors come into play. Maybe this is their way of extricating themselves (somewhat) from the liabilities associated with having that much info about a person's real interests. That said, I feel that I was never 'targeted' as a result of their handling of my data, nor was there ever any 'push' marketing as a result. I think that's where you draw the line between good corporate citizen and spammer. I hope that someone who has the time can re-incorporate it into FireFox 3.x
*** Don't be dull.***
There's no clear reason given as to why it's being discontinued, but if it's due to lack of interest, it was probably lack of advertising; I wasn't even slightly aware of this project, and it sounds like something I would have been very interested in. I use Foxmarks religiously and have trouble functioning without it.
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 :)
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.
Dang! First Reiserfs, now THIS .... I hope Linus checks criminal records on
patch submitters, or I'm TOTALLY switching to Vista ;)
my settings is set to give trolls +1 and flamebait +2.
It's often some of the most humerous and insightful comments. At other times it's just gay fiction.
Blah blah sig blah blah blah irony blah blah
I run 2 instances of Firefox (not Windows, two seperate processes) and I am forced to use different profiles. However I want them to have the same bookmarks and addons. Now I just symlink it from one profile to another what is needs. I would be much nicer to have something that could do that on my own machine, without telling anybody else what my Pr0n preferences are.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
And I have to say that it works much better than browsersync ever did, with the added bonus that I can host my own data.
The difference between Canada and the USA is that in Canada healthcare is a right and gun ownership is a privilege.
What about the other 20 or so extensions I depend on that Opera does not offer similar functionality to?
If it wasn't for the extensions I probably would be using Opera myself. But Opera is just killed by the flexibility of Firefox.
Open source their abandonware. The world would be a much better place, and the companies wouldn't get hurt.
Is Amazon no longer a third party? Granted I trust them as much as I trust Google (and from an advertising perspective, they probably have better data about me as they have actual data points for my purchases, not just my purchase-related searches) but that still seems like a rather dumb statement.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
They all ready had it. You had two 'passwords' that you had to enter to use GBS. One was your account password and the other was a passphase used to encrypt what you uploaded to them.
It works the same way Mozilla's Weave project works. The only those with your passphrase can use your data.