Ohh yess.. this feature of Firefox deserves a real good shout out and is in every way remarkable for people who keep changing PC.. read.. keep getting forced to change PC’s. Its the next level to exporting-importing bookmarks … its Syncing your entire Internet ecosystem with your hand held device such that you can sync it with any other device you need to use Firefox on.
If you use Firefox 3.6.* you need to get the “Firefox Sync” Add-on installed to begin using this feature or if you use Firefox 4 beta its there by default. Sync not only moves the book marks between systems but also the stored passwords as well as the cookies. When you install the add-on it asks you to register and then enter a pass phrase for encrypting your data. Once done, all your bookmarks along with the passwords and the cookies are transferred to the Firefox server in an encrypted format. The beauty of the system is that even if you forget the pass phrase used, it stores the encrypted key on your system and it can be used anytime you are trying to sync another device.
The next step is to install the iPhone app Firefox Home and sign in with the user id created for Sync. Once through, all the data is then available on your phone and ready to be synced with any other PC you need to use Firefox on.
There is currently no app for the Android platform because Mozilla is working on Fennec, the complete firefox explorer for android. So there is Hope 🙂
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