Mozilla Weave syncs with beta
By Stuart Turton
Posted on 17 Nov 2009 at 11:21
Mozilla's Weave add-on has hit beta, bringing faster syncing and a more polished interface.
Weave is intended to synchronise bookmarks, passwords and web history across browsers on multiple devices, including smartphones when Fennec is released next year.
The idea behind Weave is that users can switch from a PC to a smartphone and pick up their browsing experience, including opened tabs and recently closed pages, from precisely where they left off.
Clearly, this involves shuffling data across the mobile network and Mozilla says it has dramatically improved the speed at which information syncs.
This is tied to a new feature that assesses the "interestingness" of the data, allowing the service to synchronise frequently accessed web pages and bookmarks first.
This is similar to the way the Awesome Bar works in Firefox, where pages that you frequently visit show up higher in the location bar results.
Despite these improvements, Mozilla has warned that there could still be syncing delays. "If you have a lot of data, it could take some time for all of it to be synchronised," admits the release notes.
"Do not panic if you do not see all of your data immediately. Depending on the type of computer you have and the amount of data you have, this could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours."
Weave currently conflicts with many popular add-ons including AdBlock Plus.
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I've been using Weave since version 0.6 (it is now 0.8) and it *seems* to have got less useful. I am particularly interested in the History sync feature, as I often don't bookmark stuff, and quite honestly it's become about 80% useless, as it doesn't sync anything like 100% of my history. Now you've explained the 'interestingness' feature that begins to answer my question. It's pretty stupid delegating decisions to a computer at the best of times, and this is just dumb.
By c6ten on 17 Nov 2009 
XMarks too?
I'm not interested in syncing my History so XMarks already does this job for me. Granted, it does not open the tabs I already had open but again, that's not really a feature I'm after. If I did, I would use Session Manager (which, btw, is installed mainly because it enables middle-click to undo closed tabs, I can't figure out why Firefox doesn't have this built in).
Howeer, it would be nice if XMarks also synced cookies.
By mviracca on 17 Nov 2009
XMarks too?
I'm not interested in syncing my History so XMarks already does this job for me. Granted, it does not open the tabs I already had open but again, that's not really a feature I'm after. If I did, I would use Session Manager (which, btw, is installed mainly because it enables middle-click to undo closed tabs, I can't figure out why Firefox doesn't have this built in).
Howeer, it would be nice if XMarks also synced cookies.
By mviracca on 17 Nov 2009
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