I thought I'd start a small campaign to get the googlers to shift resources to make sure Google Browser Sync becomes compatible with Firefox 3. Apparently, FF3 uses a new bookmarking API (for 'Places').
Coverage here:
grantmidwinter.com/2008/04/02/ ...
groups.google.com/group/Google ...
If you can, send e-mails to press![[put at-character here]](image/at.gif) google.com. They have been known to be active on this subject. |
Matt Cutts wrote:
"bd_, I talked to one of the developers for Google Browser Sync, and he said that he’d be willing to shave off some time to help a student open-source the client. So if a student wanted to tackle that as a Summer of Code (SOC) project, it could probably happen.
Be aware that Google Browser Sync consists of a client and a server, and the server would have to be updated as well if there were significant client changes. There’s not really any time budgeted for that at all right now. A potential answer would be to rework the browser sync client so that it depended on some sort of generic server."
mattcutts.com/blog/summer-of-c ... |
Perhaps I'm wrong, but I think the latest Google Toolbar for IE replaces Bowser Sync (at least for the bookmarking system): google.com/support/toolbar/bin ...
So, I guess they don't try to make the software compatible with FF3 because they wait for the official release of FF3 in June to announce a new version of Google Toolbar for FF, including the bookmark sync. feature. |
