Mozilla Weave - Probably the most useful Firefox add-on I’ve seen
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Wow, I stink at keeping up a blog - need to learn once a year updates aren’t good.
I’ve always been one to be stubborn about the software I use - I’ve always been a Windows person, an IE person, etc.; after realizing Apple was never going to update the Windows/Boot Camp drivers for my MacBook Pro (which had plenty of Blue Screens, overheating issues, and hard freezes, all related to the buggy drivers), I swapped over to Mac OS - a big change, which I’m still trying to get used to; I miss quite a few different things I could do on a PC I can no longer do on a Mac, including full keyboard accessibility (Mac OS’s FKA leaves a lot to be desired). But I got over that, and swapped over to Firefox on my laptop as well (since running IE is pretty much an impossibility), and finally settled into that program, as well. I still used Internet Explorer on my desktop at home, just an old habit I wasn’t ready to break, until Britt pointed me to Mozilla Weave - a spectacular add-on that allows synchronizing bookmarks, saved passwords, form data, preferences, tabs, and browsing history. Coming from previously having to manually copy bookmarks back and forth every couple weeks, this certainly sounded good, so I gave it a shot - and I’m sure glad I did. Create an account, and you’re all set - it does the rest for you. Having all that sync continuously is a Godsend - and I’m not surprised they haven’t made it a standard part of Firefox yet.