Comments on: Coordinating Firefox extensions across installs

Question: Coordinating Firefox extensions across installs

Inkslinger — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:21:05 -0800

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.

By: gwenzel

gwenzel — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:04:16 -0800

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.

By: jbroome

jbroome — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:14:23 -0800

Check out CLEO and FEBE. I do believe they will do what you want.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:20:20 -0800

I'm favoriting you as hard as I can jbroome.

By: Inkslinger

Inkslinger — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:30:49 -0800

Fantastic, jbroome--I think that one of those will definitely do the job. Thanks!

By: Happy Dave

Happy Dave — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:33:41 -0800

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.