I can't seem to sync. I've tried numerous times over the last two days.

I'm using Mac OS X 10.4.6, Firefox 1.5.0.4. The only other Firefox
extensions installed are the DOM inspector 1.8.0.4, del.icio.us 1.1,
FoxTunes 1.2.5.

I'm using DSL.

I see the "Updating server" message in the progress indicator, but a
minute or so later I receive the error message "Error 51 'Request time
out.

This happens even when Firefox is the only open application.

I do have many bookmarks, mostly sorted into folders; I'd estimate
several hundred bookmarks, but less than a thousand.

"Error 51..." when "Updating server." :(

Exactly the same problem with Firefox 1.5.0.4 on Win XP and with
Firefox 1.5.0.3 on Linux.
I have slow dial-up 56 Kbit/sec connection.

Alexandr

The first works fine.
The second has the timeout problem.

Here's what I did (not that I'm suggesting it as a step-by-step
instruction set), in case it's helpful for troubleshooting:

1) First, I tried disabling every single one of my extensions except
for google bookmark sync.  Still didn't work.

2) Next, I both uninstalled the bookmark sync plugin from Firefox and
deleted it from my google account.

3) I re-installed the bookmark sync plugin, set my options (bookmarks
encrypted, nothing else).  Worked the very first time.

4) re-enabled all my extensions, restarted firefox with no problems.
Went into bookmark sync, did a full refresh, went through just fine.

So, not sure exactly where the problem lies -- however, I'm guessing
it's not related to the other extensions; I'm wagering that if I have
the problem again, uninstalling the bookmark sync plugin, restarting
firefox, then re-installing it might take care of it for me.  But,
maybe not, who knows what weird voodoo happens under the hood when you
have a complex app with two dozen plugins from different developers all
doing stuff :)

SuSE10.1.

Ended up getting it working by deleting my browser sync account.
Also accepted default settings, vs encrypting the lot.

Reinstalls etc all failed to work.

Steve

For me, the sync process gets to "updating server" - it actually
uploads a couple of hundred KBs of data (or so my upload meter says)
then stalls and gives me a "A '400 Bad request' error happened". When I
click on OK, the window closes and FF starts, but obviously the
GoogleSync icon is telling me it's offline.

Funnily enough, it DID sync partially. For example, I installed the
extension on another computer (same software configuration) that runs
the same extensions, and there it worked just fine from the get-go.
It let me store bookmarks etc. via Google Sync on the first try.
It even imported this on the computer where I've been having problems
with the extension.
It also imported the bookmarks from the non-working computer onto the
other one, even though it kept telling me it couldn't sync there.

So I'm still mystified to why this is happening. Seems it's partially
doing the synchronization after all. I also tried just enabling single
sync categories, but all gave me the same error.

More precise error messages could really benefit tracking down errors
like this.

The problem is there is a 60 second timeout on the upload of the file
to Google. If this file is big and you don't have a 512k upload speed
it times out.

The timeout seems to be hardcoded into this file
extensions\browserst...@google.com\lib\browserstate.js
You can find this on your PC in something like

C:\Documents and Settings\MYUSERNAME\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\SOMEPATH.default\

Search for UPDATE_TIMEOUT=60000 and increase that 60000ms to 120000 or
more if you have a slow connection.

You can use WordPad to edit it the file or your HTML editor.
You may want to make a copy of the file as a backup before you edit it.

Regards
Anthony

You're great:)))

anyone got the location for this parameter under OS X??

cheers
G

Thanks dude.

Library/Application
Support/Firefox/Profiles/xxxx.default/extensons/browserst...@google.com/lib/browserstate.js

UPDATE_TIMEOUT=60000

that's one minute; I changed it to 36000 or six minutes. Seems to work
fine.