Mozilla Weave
07.03.08 - 05:33pm
While it’s been around for awhile, Mozilla’s Weave has just become easy enough to use that you might consider downloading it. It’s basically a better version of Google’s now-defunct Browser Sync; it copies your cookies, browser bookmarks, tabs, and saved passwords into a ‘computing cloud’. From there, you can pull up all of your personal settings on any copy of Firefox! I just put it on my machine at work and at home, and I can say that it works well. Give it a try!
Ooh, an interesting idea! I have to say that I find its storage of cookies and passwords on other peoples’ machines is slightly disconcerting, though I suspect the encryption overcomes this.
Was I hallucinating, or did Firefox support “roaming profiles” years and years ago? Maybe it was Mozilla then. I seem to recall themes.org offering people accounts. The ability to host it on my own server would be comforting. As we become more and more dependent on our web browsers in our daily life, I think the privacy of our web data is going to become more and more important.