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Try this: Start Firefox with -p option. Create a new profile in a folder inside your dropbox, i.e. name the folder "firefox". Quit firefox, delete content of new folder "firefox" and copy your firefox profile to that folder (location depends on operating system and firefox version, just google for firefox profile). Copy all files and folders inside your profile folder to the "firefox" folder in your dropbox. Wait until the dropbox is synched.

On all other computers using dropbox: wait until dropbox is synched. Quit dropbox, rename your dropbox to something like "dropboxB" or whatever you like. Create a new folder "dropbox" containing a folder "firefox" (must be the same name as in your real dropbox). Start firefox with -p option, create new profile in "dropbox/firefox". Quit firefox. Delete fake "dropbox" folder. Rename "dropboxB" to "dropbox".

Now you can start firefox with -p option and choose your server based profile inside your dropbox. I tried this starting from my windows pc at work and synching the profile to a linux machine and a mac. Works fine but be careful with add-ons (especially themes), that work only for some operating systems.

Have fun!

joerg

• Please note that if you place your entire profile folder into your dropbox, it will also sync your browsing cache which will cause nearly-endless synchronization if you are using firefox for regular browsing.

Alper

• Bookmarks would seem to live in an sqlite3 database: <profile>/places.sqlite. Syncing it would then be a simple matter of symlinking to that from a dropbox directory. Might work until it doesn't: Sqlite3 might use file locking for a reason.

aes

• This web page seems to have a good idea: http://www.robzand.com/blog/firefox-dropbox-profile-synchronization-across-machines

Jon

• You can use Firefox backup addon FEBE (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2109) to store your bookmarks and other stuff to your dropbox dir.

yl

• If you're a sync-lightweight like me you may consider in fact just mapping the entire FF profile to DB using Profile Manager. (My first disclosure: I initiate DB syncs manually - not related to DropBox which hasn't dropped any of my data and produced only 2 conflicts in the year or so I've been using it, but I am sync-paranoid, having suffered trauma with an M$ sync years ago.) In 3.5x, the way I deal with keeping the synced data in the profile to a minimum size just happens to coincide with my privacy settings to delete the cache on FF quit. So that big chunk is jettisoned away. The URL Classifier is a source of debate as to its accuracy and a reasonably believable suggestion/allegation that Google, who contributes the data to that file, is biased in the data it includes; therefore, I turn off that update functionality in Preferences by changing permissions on the file to read only, and then manually just update once a month or so on one machine and taking that updated file and manually inserting it into each DB instance. Weave too is an option... although they really got off to a rocky start and I think a lot of users felt alienated, despite it being alpha. I used it initially, up til they eliminated webDAV sync... I need my browser data on a system over which I have more fine grained security control; keeping it off of a system specifically designed for that data and using DB instead eliminates just another risk.

Tommy_B