Weave Sync Gets Official, Renamed Firefox Sync
Weave Sync Gets Official, Renamed Firefox Sync
Posted 06/01/2010 at 5:35pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Mozilla has been working on the Weave browser sync plug-in for a while now, but they've announced that Weave has "graduated" from Mozilla Labs. The new Plug-in will be renamed Firefox Sync. Firefox sync will allow users to sync bookmarks, history, preferences, tabs, and passwords across multiple instances of Firefox. The feature will be included in an upcoming release of the popular browser. We imagine it will make the scene in Firefox 4.0.
The setup process in Firefox sync has been greatly streamlined since Weave first debuted. Mozilla has added more tolls to help users manage what content is synced, and to which computers. Weave has also been available to users of the mobile browser Fennec. Presumably, these changes will roll out to the mobile plug-in as well.
The idea of having an integrated syncing utility is a desirable one. The Chrome browser currently includes some syncing features, but Firefox Sync seems to be a more full-featured solution. Do the Firefox users out there use third-party plug-ins for syncing? Will you switch to Firefox Sync?
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murixbob
June 01, 2010 at 9:48pm
Xmarks can also save open tabs so you can pull something up you were just looking at on another computer if you haven't bookmarked it yet.
Bizarre
June 01, 2010 at 8:09pm
I've been with Weave for about a year, and will most likely stick with it. It's very easy and does everything I need. The only thing I'd like to see is syncing of add-ons across computers.
Synux
June 01, 2010 at 6:07pm
XMarks is an add-on that does the same thing. I have been using XMarks for about a year and am very impressed with it but it is very likely that I will ditch XMarks for the Mozilla equivalent even if I have no real reason to want one over the other.
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