Sync Firefox with Dropbox.

Hi habrareyudi.



Now I will tell you how to synchronize your Firefox, for example, at work and at home - synchronize bookmarks, visit history, form data, passwords and even extensions.



I once wrote about Mozilla Weave, the Firefox sync extension. His work, unfortunately, is far from ideal, and with the advent of version 3 for me personally, it stopped working altogether.



The essence of the idea in brief - move the Profiles folder which lies in “c: \ Documents and Settings \% username% \ Application Data \ Mozilla \ Firefox \” for XP, or C: \% \% username% \ Appdata \ Local \ Mozilla \ Firefox \ for Vista or ~ / .mozilla / firefox / for * nix to the Dropbox folder, and instead of it in Windows we do a junction , or a “hard link” to the directory, well, in * nix we use the good old ln -s

To create a 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 a link -

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Win

C:\>mklink /j "c:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles" "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\ \My Dropbox\firefox\Profiles"

* nix

netstar$ ln -s ~/Dropbox/firefox/profile ~/.mozilla/firefox/ermyfan.default



We do the same everywhere where 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, to create a new profile directly in the dropbox folder or simply specify the profile folder in the dropbox settings, but I consider this one to be the easiest and most “robbery”.