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Welcome to weave

Mozilla Weave enables you to have incredibly rich, personalized experiences across the web.

As the Web continues to evolve and more of our lives move online, we believe that Web browsers like Firefox can and should do more to broker rich experiences while increasing user control over their data and personal information. Weave is a Firefox add-on that is aimed at exploring this opportunity.

Some of the key functionality enabled by the Weave add-on includes:

Synchronization engine - securely transports your browsing experience across all your devices
Cryptographic engine - provides default client side encryption for all your data
Weave server - a secure storage location for all your encrypted data
APIs - extension interfaces for 3rd party developers

The initial release will provide extensive support for your browser meta-data (bookmarks, stored passwords, history, tabs, preferences, add-ons, personas).

Future releases will support other types of data and functionality.

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Weave 0.8 Released
4. Nov 2009
mconnor

Weave Sync is a prototype that encrypts and securely synchronizes the Firefox experience across multiple browsers, so that your desktop, laptop and mobile phone can all work together. It is part of the Weave project, which aims to integrate services more closely with the browser.

Major Features

What is Weave Sync all about? In short, Weave Sync lets you securely take your Firefox experience with you to all your Firefox browsers — including our mobile browser, codenamed Fennec. It currently supports continuous synchronization of your bookmarks, browsing history, saved passwords and tabs, as well as form-field history and preferences. For example:

Get the same results on the Smart Location Bar on each of your Firefox browsers, so you can get to your favorite sites with just a few keystrokes
Continue what you were doing: have the ability to open any tab you have open on any of your Firefox browsers
Keep the same list of bookmarks on all of your Firefox browsers
If you use Personas, your currently selected Persona will be synchronized across your Firefox browsers
Easily sign in to all your favorite sites using your saved passwords (this is especially handy on mobile phones, where it’s hard to type in complex passwords)
Do it all securely: Weave Sync encrypts user data before uploading it to Mozilla’s servers, so that only you can access your data

What’s new in 0.8?

If you have not looked at Weave recently, now is a great time to jump in and try it out! In this last pre-beta release we have made a number of changes based on feedback from users:

Incremental download support is much more aggressive at fetching data, with explicit priority given to your most important data first
New preference and setup UI for both Firefox and Fennec, moving back to a much tighter integration with the applications
Cut download size in half from 0.7
Better feedback for sync progress and errors
Many added bugfixes (see full changelog)