Sync Firefox addons using Dropbox

I wanted to blog about this a while back but I've been to lazy to do so. I've done this a couple of month ago irritated on the fact that Firefox was unable to sync my addons across computers and I think it was a mistake on their part.

Anyway, this is very easy to do using Dropbox.

First close down Firefox and then go to:

~/.mozilla/firefox

You can use Nautilus for this, is probably faster and easier too. In there should be one folder for each user in Firefox. Go to the one you want to sync the addons with. Probably will be the one with "*.default" in it if you don't have any users in Firefox.

Within that folder will be another folder called:

extentions

Will be this folder the one we are going to sync. Cut this folder on place it in your Dropbox folder. I place mine in:

Dropbox/App_sync/Firefox

 Once you pasted the folder in the right place, right click it and select

Make link

Now cut the link and place it on the folder where we got the original "extensions" folder. Once you placed it in the right place rename it with the original name and that's it.

The only drop back with this method is that Dropbox is not very good at syncing multiple computers at the same time. If you have multiple Firefox opened in different computers and start installing/removing addons at the same time it may give you a problem.

Get the dropbox appindicator to work in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

We all moved from 10.10 to 11.04 and by doing so we also adopted the new Unity interface. We all know that Unity still in infancy and still a lot of things that need fixing like this bug I reported to the Untiy Launchpad page which looks like that conky is causing it.

Some of them are bigger issues than others, and hopefully as we move forward to 11.10, Unity will be more like the interface we all expected to be, but for now we all gonna have to patch things up .

Anyway, Andrei at Webup8 has this patch for fixing the dropbox appindicator issue.

Dropbox Icons for Ubuntu

A couple of days ago dropbox released their new version 1.0.10 to the public with lots of improvements and changes. Read more about it here.

One of the changes is the integration with appindicator with Ubuntu Maverick but they forgot to include the mono icon them for it. So here is the link for it.