Mozilla is doing all Mozilla users a good thing again by announcing a new project just days before Christmas. Here’s an introduction of Mozilla Labs on Weave:
As the Web continues to evolve and more of our lives move online, we believe that Web browsers like Firefox can and should do more to broker rich experiences while increasing user control over their data and personal information.
This is one hell of innovation idea going on at Mozilla’s mind right now. We all know that browsers are the primary entry software we use to surf the web, be it to reach Google’s search engine, or login to your favorite email, or just use any online services out there. Over the time we will be building up our own personal information database, be it passwords, bookmarks saved, preferences and customizations. These informations are normally stored in our brains, or most of you might choose to store it in a text file in a place safe from prying eyes. Weave is an initiative to cure this itch.
What Weave does is that it will store your user informations into your Firefox account and keep it safe online. Therefore you don’t need to remember anything and can synchronize the data down to your personal computer wherever you like, or while using a guest machine like in internet cafes.
This isn’t something we all are unfamiliar with, several Firefox add-ons already perform some features in Weave, like the Foxmarks for bookmarks synchronizing, Firefox Environment Backup Extension which makes a backup of your profiles and user information. Weave on the other hand brings this to another level by allowing you to synchronize it directly to your computer anywhere.
This service is pretty new right now and you can try it out at here. Note that you will need to use Firefox 3 beta first in order to use this service.
An interesting note to take down is that Mozilla is rapidly becoming the brand we can’t live without. It’s just that its product is just too lucrative for us to ignore because of its usefulness, and of course the price. With Weave, Mozilla wants us to know that everything fuzzy can be handle by them and our internet experience will be made richer. So much from a Open Source Foundation.
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