Last week Google released a Firefox extension that allows you to store your settings, bookmarks, browsing history, etc. on Google’s servers and synchronize all this information on all the computers you work on. Since I work on only one computer the synchronization thing doesn’t do much for me, but I thought it would be a great way of automatically backing up my bookmarks.

So I installed it and for a few days it was all working ok. It does increase the Firefox load time, but since I rarely close my browser window this was not a big deal. I was happy until yesterday, when I closed Firefox and couldn’t open it again. The process would start, and then die a couple of seconds later. I had to start Firefox in safe-mode and then disable the Google extension. I guess I’ll just keep backing up my bookmarks manually.

Tags: google browser sync, firefox, extension, problem