Aw… this was a really useful tool that helped me keep my copies of Firefox on my portable and desktop machine synchronized.

It never made a lot of sense to me that it was a Google offering, but it was there and it just worked… no hassles beyond the occasional credential verification. It always just worked.

Unfortunately, the people who worked on it have moved on and rather than find new people to make it work with Firefox 3 (out next week), Google has decided to discontinue the project. So enjoy it for the rest of the year, because then it’s history.

Mozilla’s Weave project is supposed enable similar sync services, but it’s still in the early stages.
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