How many of us remember about the Google extension called Google synch that used to synchronise the history, cookies, bookmarks and even your tab session? After upgrading to Firefox 3, I started looking for the updated version of Google Synch. Once I landed on the download page, it said that it is no longer available. But it did point me to another extension - Mozilla Weave.
Mozilla Weave is another leap in the world of online computing. Now that more than half our lives are spent online a majority of us have the issue of keeping our data, settings and preferences in synch. Take for example your home and office. You’d like to have your bookmarks on the office computer accessible to you at home also. There comes Mozilla Weave. Its the next generation of web tools that make your online life easier. Mozilla Weave synchronises all your profile data. Curently the extension is in beta thus some features are disabled. As of now it is able to synchronise your bookmarks, history, cookies, saved passwords, tabs, saved form data. All this data is stored online on Mozilla hosted servers and you have a choice to encrypt your data.
The utility of this extension is manifold. I did run into a few issues though. The first run wizard sometimes just disables itself. It cannot synchronise Firefox with another running instance of Firefox. Lets say you are trying to synchronise Firefox at your home with the one at office and you left Firefox running at your office, Weave will throw an error. Considering that this is a beta version of the extension, this is acceptable.
Weave plans to add features like synchronising complete profiles including themes and extensions. But even at this nascent stage it has become an indespensible tool. Give it a try and step into the online world.
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