Firefox Integration with Chrome (Google Accounts)

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2014-05
  • Alix Axel

    Normally I use Chrome or Chromium to browse the web and I love that it keeps all my preferences, history, passwords, bookmarks, extensions and preferences synced across computers using my Google account. Firefox has a similar feature: Sync but it's much more cumbersome to setup.

    Sometimes, I would rather prefer starting a browser session in Firefox but the fact that all my data isn't there makes me go back to Chrome. I figured, since these are the two most popular browsers in use, there must exist some hidden feature or extension that would allow Firefox to sync data with Chrome (either directly or via my Google account) and vice-versa. However, I couldn't find anything so far.

    Is there a solution to sync my data between Chrome and Firefox?

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    I will probably run both of them at the same time, so I would appreciate anything that would be helpful in that situation. For example dragging a link from one to the other.

    What hints can you offer me?

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  • Dan Walker

    Since Chrome doesn't have the addon ability of Firefox, you have to make do with online solutions.

    • Bookmarks: Delicious or XMarks - neither of these have the nice integration with Chrome that they do with Firefox, but you will be able to access your bookmarks from either browser.

    • Passwords: Lastpass - The integration is a bit nicer with Firefox due to the addon, but the Lastpass bookmarklets are serviceable. Obviously you need to make sure you trust them to store your passwords securely, however the service works quite nicely.