Mozilla gunning for universal bookmarks and browsing history with project Weave
Date : 2008 01 02 Category : Web Webware.com
Mozilla's new project called Weave is an exciting new add-on to Mozilla's popular browser Firefox. While in its infancy, the service plans to be a way for users to save and access their personal browsing information across multiple machines. It's a little bit like Google's Web history, del.icio.us, and a Web password saver all wrapped up into one.
Some use cases for Weave (as listed by Mozilla) include: accessing you're the history and bookmarks from your home version of Firefox on your mobile Firefox browser, shared/collaborative bookmarking, and personalization tools to let you login and sync up your home bookmarks, plug-ins and passwords on another machine. All things, which are typically a pain unless you're technically proficient, or know how to plan ahead.
Weave version 0.1, which Mozilla's Labs team rolled out a few weeks back, lays the foundation for Web developers to add Weave integration into their services. It's limited to some very basic back end tools for developers, although version 0.2 which is planned for "early 2008" is adding a full blown API, and a user interface complete with settings to let you control how much of your information Weave can access.
Currently, users who want to take advantage of the Weave plug-in must be running the latest beta of Firefox 3, Mozilla's upcoming follow-up to the current version 2.0, which you can grab here.