Briefly: Weave Sync is a prototype that encrypts and securely synchronizes the Firefox experience across multiple browsers, so that your desktop, laptop and mobile phone can all work together.
Key Features
Weave Sync lets you securely take your Firefox experience with you to all your Firefox browsers — including our mobile browser, codenamed Fennec. It currently supports continuous synchronization of your bookmarks, browsing history, saved passwords and tabs.
For example:
- Get the same results on the Smart Location Bar on each of your Firefox browsers, so you can get to your favorite sites with just a few keystrokes
- Continue what you were doing: have the ability to open any tab you have open on any of your Firefox browsers
- Keep the same list of bookmarks on all of your Firefox browsers
- Easily sign in to all your favorite sites using your saved passwords (this is especially handy on mobile phones, where it’s hard to type in complex passwords)
- Do it all securely: Weave Sync encrypts user data before uploading it to Mozilla’s servers, so that only you can access your data
What’s new in Weave 0.5?
In this release a bunch of improvements in terms of reliability and performance have been made.
A few of the major changes are:
- Major performance improvements during upload and download.
- Sync waits until you’re not actively using the browser.
- Improved support for bookmark tags and smart folders.
- Support for changing passwords and passphrases.
- Support for Fennec on Windows Mobile and Firefox on x86 OpenSolaris.
- Better error handling and reporting.
Install Weave 0.5 (requires Firefox 3.5 or higher)
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