Coordinating Firefox extensions across installs

May 30, 2007 8:21 PM

Is there a Firefox extension that will help me coordinate added extensions across multiple installs of Firefox?

I have Firefox installed on my machine at work, and on my laptop. As I find good new extensions (some thanks to AskMe), I tend to add them on whichever machine I'm using at the time. Most of the time I remember to install the winners on the other machine. Sometimes I don't. I'd love it if there a way I could set the installs to monitor each other (or better, to be able to initiate a check, rather than have it passively monitoring), and to let me know what add-ons are missing.

posted by Inkslinger to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

This isn't a perfect solution, but you could use Firefox Portable (see www.portableapps.com) and run Firefox from a USB flash drive. Any extensions you install would then be with you wherever you are.

Also not exactly what you're looking for, but the Google Browser Sync extension synchronizes pretty much everything aside from your extensions.
posted by gwenzel at 9:04 PM on May 30, 2007

Best answer: Check out CLEO and FEBE. I do believe they will do what you want.
posted by jbroome at 9:14 PM on May 30, 2007 [10 favorites]

I'm favoriting you as hard as I can jbroome.
posted by boo_radley at 9:20 PM on May 30, 2007

Response by poster: Fantastic, jbroome--I think that one of those will definitely do the job. Thanks!
posted by Inkslinger at 9:30 PM on May 30, 2007

I use FEBE (which backs up all your extensions, chrome and everything else) and CLEO (which then packs all that up into a single-install .xpi file) and they work a treat. Here's the ever-dependable Lifehacker giving the lowdown.
posted by Happy Dave at 6:33 PM on May 31, 2007