Comments on: Google Browser Sync Timeout: Is it Just Me?

By: dakunz

dakunz — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:52:24 +0000

Im facing a problem with this as well. I have installed the Firefox extension on three of my computers, it works on only one - the one at work with firewall, but not on the two at home. Every time I try to synchronize on the computers at home I receive the timeout error.
Any reason why this is happening?

By: yokat

yokat — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 14:39:19 +0000

Here is the solution. Open the browserstate.js with a text editor (mostly find under C:\Documents and Settings\UserName/Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxx.default\extensions\browserstate@google.com\lib\ or in linux /home/UserName/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxx.default/extensions/browserstate@google.com/lib/) )

find the value UPDATE_TIMEOUT= and change its value to a few more times than the default. 360000 works for me.

By: GORby

GORby — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:49:36 +0000

Well, I think I know what’s causing it. At work, it works just fine, but at home, I always get the timeout. With my download meter, I can see that the browser sync tool is sending quite some data to the google servers (takes my full upload bandwidth at home, which is 256kbit/s). When that operation doesn’t complete in time, the timeout error appears…

Apparently google expected the sync to be completed in a shorter time than possible with my upload speed at home.

By: romit

romit — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 05:41:38 +0000

Im facing a problem with this as well. Somehow out of the three networks i usually use my computer, it works on only one - the one at work with firewall and works!
Any reason why this is happening?

By: Danno

Danno — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:54:34 +0000

No solution for your problem, sog, but I think the Browser Sync needs to go further. I want it to install and keep up to date my extensions across my instances of Firefox. That would be awesome.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:31:08 +0000

I didn’t read the ToS/EULA closely enough to determine whether they 0wnz0r my data now. I’m not sure if I really care if they do, since I don’t store any personally-sensitive passwords in Firefox…

By: Ian Murdock

Ian Murdock — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 23:00:19 +0000

Have you tried on a different computer and/or a different network? That would at least tell you whether it’s the client, network, or server. -ian

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:27:25 +0000

Perhaps this is a “non-issue” or a “who cares issue”, but did Google just ownser everyone’s browser data with this thing?