Re: [greasemonkey-users] Firefox Sync Support
LWChris@LyricWiki
> Is support for syncing installed Greasemonkey scripts with Firefox
> Sync planned?
I don't know, but I don't think so: Sync is a Mozilla tool, and your
quota on Mozilla's Sync server is very limited. I think if you have many
userscripts, that'd exhaust the quota very quickly. I'm currently
syncing my bookmarks, the passwords and the settings, that takes 278 KB
for example. My userscript folder is 244 KB large, although I do not
have any script with pictures or so. So that'd double the taken space,
and I don't know if that's possible... The only possibility could be to
export a file with the script URLs and check whether all these scripts
are mentioned anywhere in the configuration file of the other PC.
However I don't know if "hacking" into that sync system is that easy...
Agreed on this would be cool, though :D
Chris
Michal Wojciechowski
> I don't know, but I don't think so: Sync is a Mozilla tool, and your
> quota on Mozilla's Sync server is very limited. I think if you have many
> userscripts, that'd exhaust the quota very quickly. I'm currently
> syncing my bookmarks, the passwords and the settings, that takes 278 KB
> for example. My userscript folder is 244 KB large, although I do not
> have any script with pictures or so. So that'd double the taken space,
> and I don't know if that's possible...
I don't think space would really be an issue. The current limit seems to
be 25 MB, which is plenty of space
(https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-firefox-sync#w_how-much-of-my-data-is-synced).
Cheers,
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Michal Wojciechowski
http://odyniec.net/ | http://userscripts.org/users/49673
Jay Rossiter / Signe
I don't even think it's the scripts themselves that would need syncing.
Those are easy to install.
It's the *preferences* that should be synced... scriptvals from GM_set.
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Jay Rossiter http://www.cothlamadh.net/
503.896.6187 si...@cothlamadh.net
Anthony Lieuallen
Ultimately I fear that the complexity (both back end, and UI if it isn't purely automatic, and I can already see people asking for all sorts of knobs to tweak) is large, perhaps too large to outweigh the utility.
The idea of syncing the preference values throws another major monkey wrench into the works.
But it's worth discussing further.
LWChris@LyricWiki
> Ultimately I fear that the complexity (both back end, and UI if it isn't
> purely automatic, and I can already see people asking for all sorts of
> knobs to tweak) is large, perhaps too large to outweigh the utility.
Maybe it'd be worth making a separate extension out of that, like
there's been dozens of add-ons to extend Firebug.
Chris
