February 2, 2009 at 12:07 Sync Firefox with Dropbox.
Hello habra
Now I will tell you how to synchronize your Firefox, for example, at work and at home - to synchronize bookmarks, visit history, form data, passwords and even extensions.
I once wrote about Mozilla Weave, an extension for synchronizing Firefox. Unfortunately, his work is far from ideal, and with the advent of version 3 it personally stopped working for me at all.
The essence of the idea in brief - we move the Profiles folder which lies in "c: \ Documents and Settings \% username% \ Application Data \ Mozilla \ Firefox \" for XP, or C: \ Users \% username% \ Appdata \ Local \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ for Vista or ~ / .mozilla / firefox / for * nix in the Dropbox folder, and instead of it in Windows we make a junction , or a “hard link” to the directory, well, in * nix we use the good old ln -s
To create junction in Vista and wServer 2008 there is mklink, for windows XP / 2000 it will have to be downloaded
So, the most important thing is to make the link -
Win
* nix
We do the same everywhere we use Firefox and voila - we have fully synchronized bookmarks, history, extensions (which Weave could not) and other things :)
P.S. There are several ways to do the same - for example, create a new profile directly in the dropbox folder, or simply specify the profile folder in the dropbox settings, but I consider this the simplest and most “unplayable” one.
Now I will tell you how to synchronize your Firefox, for example, at work and at home - to synchronize bookmarks, visit history, form data, passwords and even extensions.
I once wrote about Mozilla Weave, an extension for synchronizing Firefox. Unfortunately, his work is far from ideal, and with the advent of version 3 it personally stopped working for me at all.
The essence of the idea in brief - we move the Profiles folder which lies in "c: \ Documents and Settings \% username% \ Application Data \ Mozilla \ Firefox \" for XP, or C: \ Users \% username% \ Appdata \ Local \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ for Vista or ~ / .mozilla / firefox / for * nix in the Dropbox folder, and instead of it in Windows we make a junction , or a “hard link” to the directory, well, in * nix we use the good old ln -s
To create junction in Vista and wServer 2008 there is mklink, for windows XP / 2000 it will have to be downloaded
So, the most important thing is to make the link -
Win
C:\>mklink /j "c:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles" "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Мои документы\My Dropbox\firefox\Profiles"
* nix
netstar$ ln -s ~/Dropbox/firefox/profile ~/.mozilla/firefox/ermyfan.default
We do the same everywhere we use Firefox and voila - we have fully synchronized bookmarks, history, extensions (which Weave could not) and other things :)
P.S. There are several ways to do the same - for example, create a new profile directly in the dropbox folder, or simply specify the profile folder in the dropbox settings, but I consider this the simplest and most “unplayable” one.