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 can 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 0.7?
If you have not looked at Weave recently, now is a great time to jump in and try it out! In this release we have continued work on scalability and reliability, user-facing performance, and continued our exploration of the new interface model that first appeared in 0.6.
- Major changes to improve sync reliability and performance for all users
- Incremental download support: when adding a new client, Weave will download your data in chunks to spread out and reduce memory and network usage
- Revamped setup and configuration UI, continuing the exploration we started with 0.6
- Many added bugfixes
Getting Involved with Testing and Development
- Install Weave 0.7 (requires Firefox 3.5 or higher)
- Learn more about Weave
- Discuss, debate, and add to the design in the Weave forum
- Join us in #labs on irc.mozilla.org
– Mike Connor, on behalf of the Weave development team
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The configuration UI in 0.7 is rather a step backwards to me compared to 0.6. I don’t see any way to make changes to the configuration other than ‘Start over’ from scratch.
Also the possibility to assign an identifier to a particular FF profile (e.g. like Firefox PC1 default profile) is gone. This would be handy when syncing tabs from multiple profiles on different computers.
I’d hope these things can be restored in a future version.
Otherwise Weave is a great add-on.
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The only real thing i want now is the ability to look at my uploaded data. Like yesterday i accidentally deleted a folder of my bookmarks. I couldn’t find a way to get them back without doing something like losing all the changes i had made since the last sync, so i had to manually go and find my last bookmark backup that i’d done myself.
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Google Group? Mozilla has newsgroups! Why not use them?
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Hi sir, I’m trying out WEAVE 0.7 but when I attempted to LOG IN as soon as I entered the passphrase , I got an ERROR: Exception: Could not acquire lock No traceback available
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