Foxmarks syncs your passwords across PCs

Thursday, October 16, 2008  //  0 Comments  //  Prototypical, Web 2.0

Foxmarks syncs your passwords across PCs | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET.

A browser’s built-in password database makes it easy to log in to personal or secure sites you visit frequently without having to type in your password each time. But if you use more than one computer say, one at home and another at work, then you have to enter in your password at least once on each machine. No current browser that I know of lets you synchronize your preferences, like passwords and bookmarks, across multiple installations of their product.

But there are solutions, and they’re getting better. Foxmarks, which has been out for a while with a tool to synchronizes bookmarks across browser installations, on Tuesday took its password sync feature out of beta. The product is a Firefox add-in that works seamlessly and behind the scenes. In its default configuration, every time you exit your Firefox browser, it sends updates of your bookmarks and passwords to a server. When you launch a session, it reads them in. Your database of passwords is protected by a PIN another password that it appears Foxmarks has no backdoor to, which is good.