While I’m on the topic of nifty software add-ons, I thought I’d plug the Google Browser Sync Firefox extension. Personally, I use four different computers on a regular basis (laptop and desktop at both home and work) and so I have four different Firefox installations with four different sets of bookmarks, et cetera. I always found myself bookmarking something at home that I thought I might need at work, and then of course having to search for it when I did need it at work.

Browser sync simply allows you to keep your bookmarks, cookies, and/or other settings synchronized between two or more different Firefox installations. It pretty much works as advertised; I had to go through and clean out some duplicate entries when I was first setting it up, but that’s not too surprising and I’ve had no issues since then. It does sync things by storing copies on Google’s servers, so if you’re paranoid about privacy (like I am) there’s an option to encrypt them. It uses a pretty weak PIN to protect them, but hey, they’re only bookmarks. I did turn off the cookie and history syncing myself.

I figured out the other day that it even keeps Sage feeds in sync, as well as what you have and haven’t viewed. Which is of course completely awesome. Highly recommended.

If you a) are crazy like me and use a Mac, b) use Apple Mail to manage your mail, and c) especially if you have a widescreen monitor, you owe it to yourself to give this plugin a try. It’s not quite as good as Outlook’s take on the same idea, but still pretty good, and improving rapidly. And on top of that, it’s free.

Or you could just wait until the next rev of OSX and pay $129 so that Apple can make it one of their “200 new features”…