Mozilla Updates Weave for Faster, More Reliable Syncing
Mozilla has updated Weave, its free add-on for Firefox that lets you synchronize all your personal data across the various Firefox installations you have running on your work PC, your home PCs and your mobile phone.
The big news in the latest Weave update (now at version 0.7, which can be downloaded from Mozilla), is support for incremental downloads, which means Weave now sends your data in smaller chunks to cut down on bandwidth and memory. The result is a much sleeker Weave experience that won’t leave you wondering why your browser is suddenly so slow. The update seems to have also solved Weave’s rather annoying habit of occasionally taking forever to log in to the server.
In addition to the incremental downloads, Mozilla says Weave 0.7 has some other performance tweaks and sync reliability improvements up its sleeve, though the announcement doesn’t offer any specifics. As always, this Weave update includes the usual slew of bug fixes.
Weave still doesn’t offer complete support for syncing everything — add-ons are the major missing component — but it certainly makes it easier to keep your various Firefox installations in sync. If you’d like to take Weave for a spin, head over to the Mozilla Labs website and grab a copy (requires Firefox 3.5 or better).
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