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)
Getting Involved with Testing and Development
- Install Weave 0.8 (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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It’s just a wonderful project you are working on there. I think it will bascially drive even more users to use Firefox as their number on browser because they will have the same great UX all across plattforms.
It would be great if you would provide a weave server that you can install on your own webspace and make deployment as easy as possible. I know that there currently is a weaveserver script out there but it seems like it hasn’t been updated for a while.
It would also be great if weave also would support addons…that you basically can use all addons on weaveenabled’foxes.
Thanks again for your continuing work…I will do my best to contribute.
Mozilla Labs: Weave 0.8 ostatnim wydaniem pre-beta…
Mike Connor poinformował na blogu Mozilla Labs o wydaniu kolejnej wersji najbardziej zaawansowanego dodatku do synchronizacji danych użytkownika dla Firefoksa i Fenneka – Weave 0.8.
Weave Sync pozwala bezpiecznie synchronizować ustawienia Fir[...]…
Will Weave Sync support Thunderbird 3 and SeaMonkey 2? And will it give a way to cross-synchronize bookmarks and passwords between Firefox and SeaMonkey 2 or Thunderbird and SeaMonkey 2?
Auto-login was a cool feature though..
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[...] Weave 0.8 Released Mozilla’s browser sync extension, Weave, continues pushing toward a 1.0 release. There’s not a ton of major changes in this release beyond bug fixes and a better interface, but if you’re a Weave user, you’ll certainly want to update. [Mozilla Labs] [...]
[...] Weave 0.8 Released Mozilla’s browser sync extension, Weave, continues pushing toward a 1.0 release. There’s not a ton of major changes in this release beyond bug fixes and a better interface, but if you’re a Weave user, you’ll certainly want to update. [Mozilla Labs] [...]
I have a general idea of what Weave is so I installed it – but the links on the top of this site (How do I get started using Weave?, What are the main features of Weave?, How do I help improve Weave?) do not work and redirect me to
http://labs-newdomain.stage.mozilla.com/
[...] Weave 0.8 Released Mozilla’s browser sync extension, Weave, continues pushing toward a 1.0 release. There’s not a ton of major changes in this release beyond bug fixes and a better interface, but if you’re a Weave user, you’ll certainly want to update. [Mozilla Labs] [...]
[...] Weave 0.8 Released Mozilla’s browser sync extension, Weave, continues pushing toward a 1.0 release. There’s not a ton of major changes in this release beyond bug fixes and a better interface, but if you’re a Weave user, you’ll certainly want to update. [Mozilla Labs] [...]
[...] http://mozillalabs.com/weave/2009/11/04/weave-0-8-released/ a few seconds ago from web [...]
[...] Weave 0.8 Released Mozilla’s browser sync extension, Weave, continues pushing toward a 1.0 release. There’s not a ton of major changes in this release beyond bug fixes and a better interface, but if you’re a Weave user, you’ll certainly want to update. [Mozilla Labs] [...]
Great job guys!
[...] For more details about Weave 0.8, please check out the details over at the Weave blog! [...]