Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla
Mozilla - They're UnbeWeaveable
by Drew Olanoff May 28th 2008
Have no fear, Mozilla Weave is here!
With Mozilla Weave you can sync all of your bookmarks, history, cookies, saved form data, and now passwords (for the first time!) with any computer with Firefox on it.
You can get the official Mozilla Weave plug-in here: https://services.mozilla.com/
Do you have multiple computers running Firefox (or any other browser) and use another plug-in or service to stay synced up? Let us know in the comments!
[via fans of tech]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
xxdesmus said 2:28PM on 5-28-2008
Now if they wanted to get really impressive they could sync extensions (with settings) as well. I'll stick with Foxmarks for the time being, but this looks pretty nice.
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ChronoZaga said 2:46PM on 5-28-2008
I use FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) and it works very well. It backs up EVERYTHING, including extensions and their settings.
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ChronoZaga said 2:48PM on 5-28-2008
http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions/febe/febe.html
xGrape said 2:59PM on 5-28-2008
I never heard of this before. I have been using foxmarks for about a couple years now I think. Works great, but only does bookmarks. Guess I might have to give this a try. Thanks for the tip :)
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Enrique said 3:13PM on 5-28-2008
This only works with Firefox 3. booooo
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thiel said 9:20PM on 5-28-2008
LOL why are you still using FF2???
Enrique said 9:23AM on 5-29-2008
Why am I using FF2? Because FF3 is still a Release Candidate. There are enough memory hogging problems with Version 2 that I figure there have to be all sorts of bugs with RC1... is that not the case? Can I upgrade to FF3 without worry?
Enrique said 4:05PM on 5-29-2008
To my point. I just installed FF3 and half of my extensions are no longer 'compatible.' And when I initially opened FF3, it crashed immediately. I had to run it in safe mode with all the extensions disabled, then one by one figure out which one was causing the crash (PicLens).
And that's why I was still using FF2
matt poirier said 3:53PM on 5-28-2008
I used google browser sync since it came out with the last update (2006). I've been using weave since ffx b4. The latest update for weave is much more reliable than the last.
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Milan said 5:28PM on 5-28-2008
Wow, this is really old news people. Keep up.
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EdMercer said 6:06PM on 5-28-2008
I've been using IE7Pro to sync my IE (duh) bookmarks between notebook, home and work PCs. I'll be using Weave as soon as Firefox 3 goes gold, but I'm sticking with IE for now.
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Stephen Haptonstahl said 7:52PM on 5-28-2008
I use FoxMarks to sync bookmarks. Free, works great, and I can get to my bookmarks from any machine/any browser by logging into http://login.foxmarks.com/. Sweet.
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Denny said 9:10AM on 5-29-2008
I use Firefox at home on 2 computers. I sync the whole profile folder with unison (a great sync / backup tool), so all extensions and all settings are perfectly in sync.
My bookmarks are stored at del.icio.us, and of course, I use the del.icio.us extension which brings all my online bookmarks right into the browser.
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Marco said 10:47AM on 5-29-2008
It would be great if there would be a way to save it to another server. I don't have enough trust to save my private user data on a server that I don't own. Sure, encryption is used and blabla... but nottin' is 100% secure... or maybe it will be a some dissapointed Mozilla developer ;-) kidding..
But that's the thing I love when I use Foxmarks... I CAN use my own ftp server!
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Rahabib said 5:44PM on 5-29-2008
bookmark sync and sort. I prefer to have it on my own server.
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rpworth said 7:29PM on 6-07-2008
They stole the name from Microsoft Mesh
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