Technology. Without Error

Are you using Firefox? I presume you are. If not, discontinue reading this post. This post is for all those firefox worshippers out there, who have multiple Firefoxes running around the web. A sneak preview at the latest from the secret labs of Mozilla. We have our history, our preferences, our bookmarks, history, passwords and everything on one PC and then try to replicate the bookmarks again on our firefox on another PC. What do we do about the history. Imagine browsing last nite from home and then coming home and searching for that website you browsed the previous night. Here is your solution. Mozilla’s offical labs product, WEAVE.

Install WEAVE like you would install any other extension for firefox. I installed both at home and work. Then create a user ID, password and a passphrase(this encrypts your data..when it is backed up on the servers). Do the initial sync. Go to your second PC and login using the ID, password and the passphrase. Then, sync. Voila! you have all your bookmarks. It simply super cool, considering the project is still in advanced stages of beta. So, your data could be lost. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! I took it because it was worth reconstructing to try out the project.

I did run into a few issues trying to work on the sync. It repeatedly refused to sync and the error log said failed to acquire a lock. Now, the solution to that would be to go to Weave preferences -> Advanced -> Debugging tools -> Advanced -> Reset Server lock. Another issue I faced that it took me several tries to login to the help forum for Weave. But once it syncs, its miraculous. I happened to have both the PCs open at the same time and my PC2 actually asked me whether I wanted to open the webpages which were open on PC1.  Weave also plans to come up with more and more user interactivity with the webpages in its future releases.

Now I wouldn’t advise installing Weave if you are paranoid about losing your bookmarks, history and stuff. Otherwise, try it out. Available here.

Weave is the Mozilla labs prototype for online services – this is what the addon installation description says.