Mozilla Weave version .6 boosts performance, adds new features
Today, Mozilla Weave took another step forward. The browser synchronization add-on is now at version 0.6 and better than ever.
Apart from the old Weave sync kung fu - bookmarks, history, and passwords - the newest version can now keep your Personas up to date across multiple machines. Performance has gotten another boost, and there's a new about:weave page that allows for easier management of your preferences and Weave account.
[update] The first-time sync also now includes the option to specify which direction you want to sync. That's a welcome change, since it means no more deafult Firefox bookmarks sneaking into my Weave profile in the cloud.
Version .6 is proof that Weave is moving in the right direction - though I'd still like to see the option to sync add-ons and themes. Perhaps that's coming in future builds. We'll have to wait and see.
Apart from the old Weave sync kung fu - bookmarks, history, and passwords - the newest version can now keep your Personas up to date across multiple machines. Performance has gotten another boost, and there's a new about:weave page that allows for easier management of your preferences and Weave account.
[update] The first-time sync also now includes the option to specify which direction you want to sync. That's a welcome change, since it means no more deafult Firefox bookmarks sneaking into my Weave profile in the cloud.














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Subscribe to commentsKevinAug 27th 2009 8:17PM
At first I was relieved to read the changelog, seeing that they supposedly overhauled the preferences area. I'm disappointed that it seems to be just a convoluted graphical overhaul.
What we need is some sort of preference setting on how often we want the browser info synced. That's a really simple request I would think. It's a lot better now that Weave won't sync unless the computer is idle, but sometimes I'll have my hands off the keyboard and mouse for a few seconds because I'm reading a story on a page, syncing will commence without me asking it to, and it'll sometimes continue indefinitely due to a glitch. We need more control over how often it syncs, simply.
tloveAug 27th 2009 8:46PM
i have been really trying to get weave working flawlessly, and its gotten better, but tis still funky sometimes.
1. synch when computer is idle doesnt seem to work for me
2. sometimes it just spins and spins even if i leave for an hour, i have to kill firefox in the task manager eventually.
3. at one point i ended up with about a thousand duplicates. luckly there are some fine plugins for scrubbing out the duplicates.
one thing that helped was doing some serious cleaning of the old bookmark file. man i had some old useless junk in there. and i agree with you there needs to be better control on when and what direction to synch.
KaysAug 27th 2009 10:19PM
I installed Weave and than upload my bookmark vs vs. Then go another computer, there is no bookmark on my firefox. if install weave on my new computer, is that possible to download bookmark on my new pc?
KaysAug 27th 2009 10:21PM
Actually i tried but it's not work. i may make mistake...