Weave Now Syncs Firefox Preferences, Auto-Logins

@rroll99: read this in your earlier post... sorry for my limited intelligence, but "leak" refers to memory usage when FF is open? From my use of FoxMarks(xMarks), it seems to only be active on startup and closedown sync. "Leak" seems to infer that the memory use is constant, and if so, wasteful.

Happy with xMarks, but tweaking is one of the main reasons to haunt LH, imho... along with learning from more knowledgeable/savvy users.

I am on my third day of testing Weave and so far I am not impressed. For starters, I had a problem registering because it doesn't seem to like you using your email address as your user name.

It is also slow and seems to be working constantly even though I am only trying to sync bookmarks and passwords. Changes seem to take forever to show up on other computers, if they show up at all. It is also not reassuring that the log files keep showing all kinds of error messages like "Some engines did not sync correctly." There is also no information or control over how different sets of bookmarks are reconciled.

On the other hand, I know that my Firefox memory usage will steadily climb from about 78M to more than 600M when Xmarks is enabled. I've proved that on a variety of different computers, with regular and portable installs, and with all my other add-ons, except StatusBarEx, either disabled or not installed at all. I'm stuck using some old computers at work where that kind of memory usage is unacceptable.

rroll99

I love the concept, but it slows *everything* to a crawl while it's synching... which it does way too often. I finally had to disable it only an hour after installing.

@Lightsout565:

Yeah, I am installing it right now!

Ferox

@shallnot: Jetpack. Ubiquity. Were they ripped from opera?

This feature is really good of new Firefox addon is it Sync encrypts user data before uploading it to Mozilla's servers, so that only you can access your data.

So, will this ever become an integrated Firefox feature?

FamiCube64

@Nabeel: Unless there is a major critical bug found that will stall the release process.

Domthedude001

this will be a big nuisance if anyone manages to get into one of the computers...i mean if you had xmarks someone could very well nuke your bookmarks...but you can still make offline backups of that...what scares me is my history and logins getting piped around...

urbanturban666

@skurtis.1: How insightful and original.

bodar

@Type1: Use FEBE to back up your add-ons (and preferences) on a regular basis into a Dropbox directory.

Michael Smith

@TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.: You can use a combination of the FEBE extension and Dropbox to sync everything including your extensions.

Michael Smith

I guess this is a good place to ask, is there an easy way to sync my firefox profile between my Win7 and Linux partition? Because I am using Live Bookmarks for my RSS something like this doesn't really cut it as it forgets what I have and haven't read.

JellyDoodle91

Xmarks provides a place (my.xmarks.com) for you to view your bookmarks from any computer (like a public one that you don't want to install firefox on and sync to your account).
Will Weave provide this? This is one of my favorite features of Xmarks.

skyler.b

@bagano: probably RC 3, annoyingly it doesn't say which version of firefox 3.5 you have in the about box.

hope the final version is even better

This is brilliant for dual-booting from XP to Ubuntu. The amount of times I've found a link that I wanted to open in Ubuntu and I had to bookmark it and sync up with xMarks. This'll be much better.

sensory

I don't know Weave but I've been using Xmarks for a year now and I'm happy

Richard James Drake

I find that XMarks and LastPass is a much better way to keep bookmarks and passwords in sync. I've never had problems with that combo. They are superb products and are being actively developed.
I just can't see any reason to switch to weave .. except the preferences sync. Honestly, it takes me 30 seconds to set up my firefox preferences and then I don't mess with it until I do a reinstall or something like that.
I think I will pass on weave for now.

gpzbc

@Timothy Collins: What? Google doesn't store my passwords. Do they?

Anyone know how the "Personas" part of Weave works? Many of the sites I browse/bookmark/login at home don't need to be synced with work, but some do.

For me, an ideal solution would be to setup "work" and "personal" personas, then tag items as they are browsed to indicate with which persona they should sync.

I don't know about you, but some of the sites I browse at home should definitely not show up at work :)

bobbo33

@LoneWolf008: That link was meant to say collections like in matzahboy's previous post. Damn you "no preview" lifehacker comments :-/

LoneWolf008

@[lifehacker.com] . Someone mind pointing me in the right direction?

LoneWolf008

weave works fine for me .. you can pick and choose what you want to sync with each device so you don't have to sync your passwords at all ..

krewemaynard .. i've been using weave for a few months and not once has it not connected to the server , make sure your passphrase is correct.

sunnytimes

@radiantchains:
Haha, nice.

I finally gave up on Weave because I could rarely connect to the servers. When I could, it was painfully slow, if it even worked. I love the idea of Weave, especially since it comes from the folks at Mozilla. For now, I'm going to stick with Xmarks until Weave stabilizes.

krewemaynard

@Lightsout565:
Not "might". It will release tomorrow.

Weave !!! come on...this browser has not one original idea implemented...all it has is ripped off ideas and they all were ripped from one place Opera...

shallnot

@skurtis.1: I didn't know Opera could sync my Firefox preferences and auto-logins!

radiantchains

@Charles Ip: I'm similarly curious... but then again, xmarks still has the added feature that it can also sync bookmarks with Safari and IE and in the future Chrome.

@skurtis.1: C
are to explain what that has to do with anything?

protospork

Will this do auto-form filling like Last Pass does (with custom profiles)? If so, I'd could easily ditch X Marks and Last Pass for Weave as a one-stop-synchy-shop (once I get my grubby mits on FF3.5).

Anybody know?

dix-huit

I have been waiting for a good alternative to Xmarks. My testing shows that Xmarks has a huge memory leak that no one seems to be paying attention to.

rroll99

Or you could just use Opera.

skurtis.1

@arienh4: Good point... It would have to change where the passwords/bookmarks live. They wouldn't be saved on the local browser anymore, they would have to live up in the cloud (Sort of how Google does that type of thing)...

Timothy Collins

Take a look here
[addons.mozilla.org]

ewmatt

@collections as a workaround. You tell mozilla which extensions you want to put in the collection and then you can download them all at once from any computer.

They don't, however, sync the preferances of the extentions.

There may be a way to sync the extensions using DropBox

matzahboy

@Type1: I second that. It would be even better if you could automatically download the add-ons that you have saved in your Firefox collection.

LoneWolf008

@TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.: Quoted from the post, "The big missing features is syncing for add-ons and their preferences, but you can get halfway there by creating your own add-on collection and using the Add-on Collector to keep it updated."

matzahboy

Weave starts out like xmarks in terms of bookmark/password sync and builds on it with feature such as remember open tabs across computers, browsing history/awsomebar, and firefox preferences. It also has an identity model using OpenID which is supposed to auto login to websites but my identity is a bit hit and miss with multiple OpenID vendors, hopefully the industry will sort this out soon.

FarleyBenkar

I would swear I got 3.5 final yesterday...

xMarks is still the only one with support for browsers outside Firefox alone. Weave looks as though it has more options for sync, as well as social network features.

CarmineTriton

I need something that syncs Firefox Add-ons!

Type1

That picture scares me. It isn't going to share my passwords with friends and family is it?

So 3.5 might release tomorrow?

@sk_dakota: Correction:
I think it is a stupid idea to store passwords on a service provider and trust him boundless ...

sk_dakota

imho xMarks is the better way... it works with Safari, IE and Firefox. Btw. I think it isn't a stupid idea to store passwords on a service provider and trust him boundless ...

sk_dakota

Can someone comment xMarks vs Weave? I'm using xMarks, love it, and am wondering.

Charles Ip

So does it just carry over the preferences from the browser itself, or all of the extensions as well? Because that would be downright awesome.

TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.