As I wrote about earlier, I finally managed to get Firefox 1.5 running on my computer. In fact, I’ve got it pretty much up-to-date including installing and customizing five or six extensions; extensions like Tabbrowser Extensions (the _best_ Firefox extension btw) that require _a lot_ of customization. I’ve also done a lot of munging to the user interface.

High-Speed Firefox User Interface

…and I’ve tweaked my @userchrome.css@ file, blah, blah, blah. So the thought of painfully updating my old computer to this new Firefox 1.5 build didn’t sound all that appealing.

Fortunately, I remember hearing about “Foldershare”:2 from a “post”:1 on Scoble’s blog… that Foldershare was some sort of personal P2P networking utility or some such thing. Well, as it turns out one of the primary uses of Foldershare is to synchronize folders on two different computers — perfect for Firefox cloning.

After booting up both computers, downloading and installing Foldershare, I stumbled through the interface a bit — and after I almost did something really bad — I got an exact copy of my “master” Firefox build running on my old computer.

Zoinger says, Foldershare is right on.

P.S. I found the Foldershare instructions to be a bit lacking, so I somehow managed to copy my Firefox profile folder to the old computer, but I also deleted the “master” profile folder (the files weren’t really deleted, just moved to a @Foldershare/Trash@ directory). Make sure you back up your folders before playing around with Foldershare if you are an idiot like me.

[2(Foldershare homepage)]https://www.foldershare.com/

[1(Scoble post on Foldershare)]http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/11/12/michael-raves-about-folder-share/