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Mozilla Weave gets faster, adds Fennec support on WinMo in .5 release
Yesterday, Mozilla Labs debuted version .5. The most noticeable change? Weave now stays out of the way while you're actively browsing in Firefox, waiting to go idle. On a mostly bare Firefox install (the only other addon I have installed is Personal Menu), Weave .4 caused the occasional performance hiccup. So far with .5, it's been smooth sailing.
The official blog post also reports improved performance in uploading and downloading - which I also noticed when setting up Firefox on my office system. While I can't provide an exact time, I'd estimate that it took roughly half the time to sync my profile from scratch as it did with .4.
Weave .5 also supports password and passphrase changes, handling for bookmark tags and smart folders, and adds support for Fennec on Windows Mobile. OpenSolaris users are now able to get in on the fun as well.
If you install Weave and you're concerned about security, you may want to head to its preferences screen and take the check out of the "automatically connect" box and choose not to remember your Weave password when you sign in next time.
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Subscribe to commentsxlerateJul 30th 2009 5:48PM
You know, I sincerely think the comments on DLS would be more populated like that of Lifehacker if we didn't have to post & verify my post with an email.
How about just logging in? Seems to work for Lifehacker...
To my comment...
I installed Weave on my home desktop and work notebook for the simple reason of picking up tabs and such when I get home. However, a home sync failed and wiped out all my bookmarks and hung indefinitely. It just kept saying it was syncing. Even after reinstall ...same thing.
Don't try and get any help over at the support group, my question has been unanswered or responded to at all for 3 weeks now.
Help Button in the extension settings take you here: http://support.mozilla.com/1/firefox/3.5.1/WINNT/en-GB/prefs-sync-account/
...A nice 404 page
Pros: Great Idea, Cool Logo
Cons: Doesn't work. Developers don't care.
I would like to see Google Firefox sync developed.
That at least worked.
...Now off to approve my own comment I go... ugh....
tloveJul 31st 2009 6:46PM
works but can easily make a mess;
1. main wk machine: installed, joined, connected, uploaded (easily 7 min), used all of the defaults, looks fine so far
2. went to secondary wk machine and did the same, once again 7 mins to wait, then found bookmarks to be a combination of the good stuff from the main machine and the junk on the spare machine.
3. went back to first machine and opened firefox and synched, new junk pile from second machine is now on the main machine = yeuchie pooie
4. restored the bookmarks at least from the firefox auto backup that happend this morning, back to square one.
5. start firefox on the second machine and wait, 7 min, poop is back again, bookmarks still not the good set, sense i should change name to Sisyphus, oops gotta go, friday, beer thirty