Chrome plugin to access Firefox sync

I've been doing various kinds of outreach, but it seems like our group
isn't going to grow without something shiny to show off. Since Firefox sync
is already open-source and there are various people working on making it
more understandable and easy to use, I think building a Chrome plugin to
allow users to access their Firefox sync data might be a good start. It
doesn't have to be fancy, and from a brief look at the Chrome developer
docs I don't think it can replace Chrome's built-in sync, but even if it's
just something simple it would be something that would show the potential
of open sync.

For the first version, a button that displays a panel that first lets you
authenticate with your Fx account and afterwards lists your open tabs in
your Firefox instances would be achievable. We can use code from
https://github.com/edmoz/fxa-sync-client and
https://github.com/zaach/node-fx-sync to get started. To simplify things,
let's only target Fx sync 1.5 users.

Thoughts?

Ryan

Received on Tuesday, 3 June 2014 18:42:56 UTC