Mozilla has released Weave 1.1, the Firefox extension and service that provides Firefox user data synchronization among computing devices like laptops, desktops, and starting tomorrow, with Firefox for Maemo release, mobile devices. It is also great for users who dual-boot, and what don’t want to bother remembering where they did what.

So far, synchronization includes bookmarks, history, preferences, passwords, filled forms, and even your last 25 opened tabs. All the information is transported and stored in encrypted form at all times making it pretty safe to use.

Weave, in development for more than two years now, includes a client (the Weave Sync extension), and a server component (Weave Server) so companies could deploy their own synchronization servers.

A feature that is not present but was tried at some point in Weave development is automatic sign-on, but it could come back at some point.

Also, preferences finally ended in its own tab in the Options or Preferences dialog, after trying a page approach Mozilla is considering for the whole preferences user interface or add-on management at least (more on this in the next post).

Check out the release notes for more details. Download Weave Sync from Mozilla Add-ons.

Recent changes

  • Fix issues with uploading stale data when upgrading
  • Remember bookmark locations when moving out of unsorted
  • Prevent certain tabs from syncing: restore session, wyciwyg:

More Information

  • For more information on Weave Sync 1.0, please see the release notes
  • For information about previous versions as well as the latest development snapshots, check out the changelog

Weave Sync Changelog

Here you can read about Weave add-on releases. For the full hg changelog, go here

Weave v1.1 (February 26, 2010)

  • Fix issues with uploading stale data when upgrading
  • Remember bookmark locations when moving out of unsorted
  • Prevent certain tabs from syncing: restore session, wyciwyg:

Weave v1.0.1 (February 12, 2010)

  • When syncing saved passwords we no longer allow Weave credentials in the set of data that is encrypted and synchronized with the server

Weave v1.0 (January 28, 2010)

  • Fix threshold sync values so clients don’t sync too aggressively
  • Updated web links and icons