Nearly every one of us will use the same web browser across multiple computers. Problem is, add a bookmark to your laptop-based Firefox, turn on your desktop and the bookmark won't appear automatically. You need a system for synchronising this information across your computers. Up until recently we were big fans of Foxmarks. This company completely re-focused, renamed themselves Xmarks and released updated Firefox add-ons. At the same time, Mozilla Weave was slow and sometimes would hijack your browser whilst it was synchronising data with the remote server.

Mozilla Weave 0.5 has been released and the roles have reversed. Whilst Xmarks keeps coming back with an 'error 3' warning when trying to sync our data, Mozilla Weave 0.5 works perfectly and is faster than it's ever been. We've now ditched Xmarks and moved across and haven't looked back since. Don't forget you can also use Mozilla Weave to synchronise your Firefox preferences, passwords and other key info.

Mozilla Weave 0.5 and Xmarks for Firefox links.

30 Jul 2009