Google Extends Firefox Some Love

The Google Toolbar for Firefox will soon emerge from its beta status; also, the company introduced a synchronization feature to make one's browser settings available on multiple computers.

Google Toolbar for Firefox has benefited from a series of bug fixes and other improvements. Brian Rakowski from Google Google Browser Sync, the extension to Firefox will keep track of the settings in all of the browsers where it is installed: Google Browser Sync unifies your bookmarks, history, saved passwords, and persistent cookies across all the computers where you install it. It also remembers which tabs and windows you had open when you last closed any of your browsers and gives you a chance to reopen them. Google did note that this release of the extension will increase Firefox's start-up time as it syncs with browser settings made on other computers. They are working at decreasing that delay. Browser Sync can be of use for a single computer, too. It can backup the browser's settings and restore open tabs and windows when Firefox is restarted. As ZDNet Google blogger Garett Rogers Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.