14 DAY TRIAL // Things are moving as fast as usual at Mozilla Labs and, hardly a week after the previous release, the developers have released a new beta for Mozilla's bookmark and settings sync project for Firefox and Fennec, the organization's mobile version of the web browser. Weave Sync 1.0 Beta 2 fixes several bugs which affected the previous beta and is another step towards the final release which should come soon enough.
The new beta also brings several of updates and improvements of the existing features. Users should find it easier to recover their passwords or secret phrases in this new release and Mozilla says this should come in handy for those setting up the add-on on a second machine, as it looks like many were having trouble remembering their credentials at this point.
The new Weave Sync beta also improved the way it handles same-name folders which have different bookmarks on different computers. On occasions, Weave Sync would place the bookmarks in the wrong folder, but this issue should now be fixed. The add-on now syncs history deletion as well, so removing a website from the browser history on one machine will now remove it in all of the synced browsers. The functionality had been available only for bookmarks until now.
Lastly, Weave Sync now automatically labels tabs which were opened on another computer by using the computer's name as well as the user name. These updates may not be groundbreaking features, but at this point the focus is on polishing the functionality and working on getting the product ready for its first big release.
Weave Sync is just the first step of the Weave project, a more ambitious undertaking at Mozilla Labs which aims to make the browser experience seamless across various installs and integrate web services with the web browser. There's still some way to go until for the Weave project to take shape, but with Sync almost out the door the team is focusing on a new add-on which should be coming any time now, allowing users to sync their login credentials for various sites stored by the browser.
Mozilla Weave Sync 1.0 Beta 2 for Firefox is available for download here.