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Interesting to hear that extensions are your reason for sticking with Chrome. What sort of addons do you find lacking in Firefox?
by tagawa 13y ago
Interesting to hear that extensions are your reason for sticking with Chrome. What sort of addons do you find lacking in Firefox?
- habosa 13y agoNot too many critical extensions, but a few: Motorola Connect, Google Hangouts, and Hacker News Enhancement Suite. The real reason I stick with Chrome is because it works so well with my Google accounts and syncs everything I do to my phone. I could partially move to Firefox if I could find a good way to do bi-directional bookmarks sync between the browsers. I tried XMarks but it would totally fuck up all of my Chrome bookmarks once in a while.
- tagawa 13y agoThanks. I'm also looking into bookmark sync. They have Firefox Sync ( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/sync/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/sync/ ) but I haven't tried it out yet.
- limpangel 13y agoI have been using Sync ever since it was introduced in FF(4 I think?!?) and I have to say it worked really well for me. Not only does it sync your usual suspects bookmarks/passwords/history, but it also syncs your installed addons and their settings (if supported). For example it syncs AdBlockPlus's list of whitelisted websites. Another neat Sync feature is the possibility of seeing the open tabs on all your synced devices. For example I am looking right now on my phone and I can see the add HN comment tab in the mobile version of FF (Android). On top of that the Sync server is open source so basically you could deploy it yourself if you have privacy concerns, although your data is encrypted before it is uploaded to the server anyway.