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Google Browser Sync

Paul Westbrook | 07 June, 2006 22:08

The people at Google have been pretty busy.  The day after they came out with the Google Video Player for Mac, they have come out with Google Browser Sync.  This is very similar to the Foxmarks and Bookmarks Synchronizer extension.  Both of these will allow you to keep your bookmarks on a ftp or WebDAV server.  (Foxmarks also offers to host the bookmarks as well.)

Google Browser Sync stores the bookmarks on their servers.  The setup was a lot easier than either of the other bookmark synchronizers.  In addition, Google Browser Sync allows you to specify which data, if any, you want encrypted before being sent off your machine.

This extension has pushed me over the edge, and I am switching back to Firefox.  The only think that is really lacking is good integration with the Keychain.  If I get motivated enough, I may checkout the Firefox source and modify it to use the Keychain as the password storage mechanism.

[via Google Blog]

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1Passwd

Paul Westbrook | 07 June, 2006 02:28

The main reason that I switched from Firefox to Camino was because I didn't like that Firefox uses it's own password database.  This seemed like a waste, since Mac OS X's keychain provides a system wide mechanism to store passwords.  This would allow a stored password to be used by different passwords applications.

Since Firefox gets the security fixes faster then Camino, I really want to switch back to Firefox.  I was actually thinking of writing an extension that would hook into Firefox password code, and store the password in the Keychain.

I saw this post, that describes 1Passwd, a new extension for Firefox and Safari, that will store passwords in the keychain, and will auto fill in forms with this information.  (I don't know why this is necessary for Safari, since Safari already stores in the keychain.)
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FTP/SFTP/FTPS

Paul Westbrook | 07 June, 2006 01:03

One of the people who works at Panic has a post that goes into pretty good detail about the FTP, FTPS and SFTP protocols.

[via TUAW]

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