Marios Tziortzis

If you are using multiple computers weekly (or even daily) and you want to have your bookmarks, saved passwords and even your form data always available with you, then Weave is for you! Mozilla Weave is a Firefox 3 extension that is filling up for the discontinued ‘Google Browser Sync‘ extension and expanding the ‘Foxmarks‘ extension. As their website states:

“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.”

In this post I will show you how to set up Weave on your own server if you don’t want to store these kind of information on mozilla’s servers. Also since Weave is still beta you won’t be able to get an account and sometimes syncing is unavailable.

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I consider myself a Firefox power user. I have a really tweaked Firefox installation with custom “userChrome.css” files and lots of modifications in the configuration(about:config). All that with a couple of add ons make my browsing better and increase my productivity even more! Still I never stop looking for ways of improving the default Firefox installation. Recently I was having a chat with Ben and he said he didn’t like the dotted blocks when he was browsing my photos. Having that said I had to find a solution. I ended up with a couple of solutions actually!

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