Hello,
I thought it might be useful for those having more that one distro installed to know there's at least one possibility to keep open tabs, passwords, history, bookmarks and cookies synced regardless of the distro involved.
It a slightly less known/advertised Firefox extension -although is two years old already - called
Google Browser Sync
It uses a google mail account as credentials, but it also has an added security measure in form of a personal PIN number that each one chooses when activating the service.
In the Sync Settings Tab, upon instalation, only the
Passwords and the
Cookies are synced over a secured https connection. The other three,
Tabs and Windows, Bookmarks, History have this option available too, yet it is unchecked by default. In other words, one can make sure all his personal data gets synced in a perfectly secured environment.
As a security precaution, I URGE everyone considering this modality of dealing with personal data to take a moment and consider very carefully the implications. As an example, just imagine you're in an airport cafe and you get all your personal data/passwords in a public/not to be trusted computer.
For those needing just bookmark synchronization, I can recommend
Foxmarks extension available at
https://addons.mozilla.org. Another one who looks promising but I haven't yet time to test is
HyperBK extension - who is supposed to bring automatic bookmark classification and history enhancements.
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