I think I might stop using Google Browser Sync after today’s lastest annoyance. So I’ve already told you how stupid it is that Google Browser Sync doesn’t prompt you for the password when you want to sync (especially for those who sync their passwords and entire identity). Then there’s the fact that it delays Firefox from opening while it connects to its server. Why can’t it do that in the background? Or it should also add the option of syncing when I want it to.<\/p>\n
The latest annoyance, I’m getting scared. It’s been prompting with this message box before Firefox loads:<\/p>\n
Google Browser Sync needs your Firefox Master Password in order to sync your passwords, please enter it below.<\/em><\/p>\n Why does it need to know my Firefox Master Password?!?!? I don’t even tell it to sync my passwords. I’ve double checked my settings on both my machines and neither have the password syncing option enabled. Unless someone’s hacked both my GMail account and my Google Browser Sync password, I find it weird that it should suddenly ask me for my master password…<\/p>\n Maybe I shouldn’t be trusting Google so much… Then again, many people have all their emails on their servers which is even scarier.<\/p>\n Now I have one thing more to dislike about it. There’s no way to turn off the sync tool without uninstalling the extension. I can stop the syncing (basically log off the sync tool), but everytime I load Firefox, it prompts me to log into my GMail account, which is worst than delaying the startup of Firefox while it connects to its servers.<\/ins><\/p>\n Ah… I found out how to disable Firefox extensions w\/o uninstalling them. Apparently if you right click on the extension, you can disable it instead of uninstalling it. I knew Firefox would have something like that.<\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think I might stop using Google Browser Sync after today’s lastest annoyance. So I’ve already told you how stupid it is that Google Browser Sync doesn’t prompt you for the password when you want to sync (especially for those who sync their passwords and entire identity). Then there’s the fact that it delays Firefox … <\/p>\n