Firefox 11 To Get Add-On Sync

[Tywais]

Firefox 11 to get add-on sync

Following the update to Firefox stable earlier this week, Mozilla released yesterday updates to its Aurora and Beta versions that introduce some pretty hefty changes for Firefox on PCs.

Firefox 11 beta (download for Windows | Mac | Linux) presages some hefty changes for the browser. The biggest one, which wasn't present in the Firefox 11 Aurora release, is add-on sync. You'll now be able to mirror the same add-on installations and settings across multiple desktops. Though Google Chrome has been able to sync add-ons for some time, its implementation has been notably uneven, so it'll be interesting to see how well Firefox handles it.

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Accompanying it will be a change in the Mozilla add-on policy, so that the majority of add-ons--about 80 percent--will be marked as compatible by default. This is now in Firefox 11 beta.

Source - Cnet.com

[Phil Conners]

I've used the sync functionality of Chrome since it came out, never observed any "uneven" problems with it. Maybe Cnet just likes Firefox. Next thing they'll probably copy the multi-user functionality from Chrome too

[Tywais]

Maybe Cnet just likes Firefox.

Obviously depends on the editor but in general I feel Cnet is fair in its evaluations. Both FF and Chrome get 5 stars editors ratings, IE not so much - sounds accurate to me.