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Secure and automatic synchronization for Safari users

August 15th, 2008 by Shashank

A few months back, we added the ability of using Google Gears to store your private data offline (i.e., on the hard disk of your computer) to provide secure and automatic synchronization with your bank.

Today, we have extended the support for our beloved Safari users as well. Safari v3.1+ users can store their authentication information locally within their browser, and synchronize their bank accounts without ever having to share their username/password with our server.

Safari users do NOT need to install Google Gears or any other extension, since Safari has added support for client-side database storage (conforming to the new HTML5 standard)

You can read more about secure synchronization via offline data storage here.

This entry was posted on Friday, August 15th, 2008 at 3:34 pm and is filed under Bank accounts, Google Gears, New features. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Marcus P S Says:
September 7th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

Firefox also has this functionality without the need for Google Gears, and it is also conforming to the new HTML5 standard. Why not provide support for Firefox without Google Gears as well?

Wm Tanksley Says:
September 8th, 2008 at 9:30 am

Actually, the BIG thing I want here is to once again be able to manually synchronize without having to type my username and passwords in for EVERY SINGLE ACCOUNT EVERY TIME. It used to be that using Google Gears made it easy to manually synchronize. Now it doesn’t.

No, I don’t want to automatically sync when I log in; if I do that, I won’t have the opportunity to review the newly entered transactions. This is REALLY important to me, both because it’s good financial sense and because I’ve seen an erroneous transaction entered from far back in the past (it appears to have been a data error on the bank’s part, but if I hadn’t reviewed Buxfer would have entered it).

Guilherme Silveira Says:
September 17th, 2008 at 7:35 am

It looks like Buxfer automatic sync in safari does not show up anywhere. The webpages linked from this post on the blog doesnt contain any reference to the safari release, only to google gears. Any info on how to make use of auto sync on safari?

Rick Says:
October 9th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

Does this also apply to the iPhone version? IIRC, the MobileSafari in iPhone 2.0 is equivalent to Safari 3.1 as web compatibility features are concerned.