Google Sync vs. Firefox Sync

1 points by optimusclimb 15y ago ↗ HN

Eagerly installed Firefox 4 and started playing with it. Was immediately disappointed when I realized that Firefox now has its own (competing?) bookmark syncing system. With the amount of content out there I hope to read, I rely heavily on bookmarks, and syncing as well...so that when I switch from my work laptop to personal, I can easily pick up where I left off. (Not to mention of course keeping track of the many archived go-tos.)

Anyway, I don't believe I have to extoll the virtues of bookmark syncing, but why didn't Mozilla collaborate with Google on this? Smells a lot like creeping "lock in" to me, which is not how I thought either of those organizations rolled.

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eiji 15y ago ↗

... why didn't Mozilla collaborate with Google on this? ...

Firefox sync is user encrypted. Firefox/Mozilla has no idea what bookmarks you got.

This collides with almost every other bookmark management system out there (including Google sync I guess), because they all want that information to gather intel or make money with it.

jim_h 15y ago ↗

The fact that Firefox sync is encrypted has convinced me to use them.

Based on a youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv_sq5zpN0M&t=1m45s), they said the bookmarks are encrypted BEFORE it gets sent to their servers. This means it's private.