Roaming should be useable with Firefox. I added support for it a year ago, but it probably bitrotted.

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Ben, do you have any plans to un-bitrot your patch? This could be a real killer feature for Firefox 1.0 Prog.

No

FYI, the pref stuff should be in CVS as firefox.xul/js. The rest is just bugfixing on pref UI and startup sequence/invokation.

Our corporate users require this feature.

In my opinion roaming should be available only as an extension. I'm not sure what is needed for this to happen.

In Jan 2005, I did a bit more on roaming for Firefox for one customer. The project was canceled early, after 10 hours or so, but here's what I just found from then.

These are the changes to extensions/sroaming/ (Previous were the changes to general Firefox) Here's my old todo list of unsolved problems (even with these patches): - crash during shutdown in GTK, try seamonkey patch - check that network works during shutdown - registry firefox has no mozreg.dat, need to implement other scheme, hardcoded some test values for now in this patch. - prefs window there is a firefox version of the prefs window in the tree, which took a long time to developer, because I need to sync 2 panes without commiting, but I think it bitrotted due to firefox changes

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Corporate-oriented features are not the current focus for Firefox 2, but we would evaluate a finished patch for inclusion.

it would be cool if sroaming would not rely on xpcom/obsolete

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I didn't need roaming in Firefox 1.5, because my home directory is on a central server and ~/.mozilla is the same no matter where I am. This worked fine. This does not work in Firefox 2.0. Something has changed, and firefox is now much more aggressive about writing the files in my profile, so much that the network traffic kills me, even on a fast net. I suppose I'll go to some kind of rsync solution.

any progress?

(In reply to comment #14) > any progress? > nope

*sigh* This will not make progress unless somebody steps up and does it.

Opera Link: http://www.opera.com/products/link/ They're touting this as their major feature for Opera 9.5. It seems very easy to use, we could do this in the same way (as an option) rather than demand a base URL and that jazz. This would obviously be useful for Mozilla Mobile, at the very lease. If many Mozilla developers ever use mozilla on a mobile, I would expect they would use this, and this would be killer.

But that just syncs bookmarks, not any other settings. And it requires the cooperation of a central authority.

(In reply to comment #18) > But that just syncs bookmarks, not any other settings. And it requires the > cooperation of a central authority. > Yeah, but at least it syncs anything... I mean this feature request is open for 4 years and nothing happend...

(In reply to comment #18) > But that just syncs bookmarks, not any other settings. And it requires the > cooperation of a central authority. > True, it should be expanded to sync cookies and such too - everything, perhaps. As far as requiring a central authority is concerned, that should be OPTIONAL. It would make it simpler than asking the user for complex URLs, which should be optional.

Today it possible via extensions - google, or foxmarks, etc. It will be better to have possibility to host this central server for everyone on simply web hosting, without commercial man keeping our history, bookmarks and kookies like now.

Yes, I think it would be nice if the Mozilla platform would have built-in support for such a feature, so Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. can all use the same base support for that...

The Weave Mozilla Labs projects aims at implementing a synchronization platform, amongst other things (http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/12/introducing-weave/). In the first prototype available right now, it does history and bookmarks syncing. I guess it will be extended (or via extensions) to synchronize more things like cookies, passwords, preferences, extensions, ...

This bug is filed in a bugzilla component related to pre-Firefox code which no longer exists. I believe it is no longer relevant and I am therefore closing it INCOMPLETE. If you believe that this bug is still valid and needs to be fixed, please reopen it and move it to the Toolkit:Startup and Profile System product/component.