Mozilla Weave 0.2 released
The Mozilla Labs have released the second milestone for Weave, a project to develop a coherent framework and platform for deeply integrating online services with the browser. In this release there have been significant changes that actually surpasses the competition in several areas, such as Opera Link.
It has been a while after Weave 0.1 and 0.2 is packed with more than ever. Mozilla Labs' Weave is quite essential these days as Google's browser synchronization add-on has stopped development and won't work on Firefox 3. Besides Foxymarks, Weave is the only real synchronization add-on available (Google Toolbar is an alternative, but uses it's own bookmarks format and adds too much other crap as well).
Weave 0.2 includes major rework to the installer and network experience, following the path of user friendliness as defined by Firefox. Most importantly is that it supports major browser data types, such as bookmarks, browsing history, cookies, saved passwords, saved form data, and tabs for synchronization. This alone makes Weave in one go surpass Opera Link, which only synchronizes bookmarks, Speed Dial and notes.
It's good to know that Weave uses encryption to make sure your data is transferred securely, but also stored securely on the remote servers. In the future Weave will also be able to work with Fennec, or other browsers (on devices), as it's all open source.
Weave is worth checking out, although it's still in an early phase, but before you do make sure to read all the bits of information.
Opera Link also syncs your notes and personal bar (the one with the bookmarks) besides the bookmarks and Speed Dial.
But especially Opera has got enough data to sync, such as your contacts, Wand, cookies (session). Perhaps even preferences in the future.
Let's hope Opera gets triggered to extend Opera Link beyond what it is today :)
Alastor, it's already well known that Link will support more as development continues, or did you forget it's beta...
You always happen to exclude this information when you talk about your pet browser.
Opera Link is part of both Opera 9.5 and Opera Mini 4.1 and is not considered to be beta. Just simply looking at the Opera Link web site reveals no information that you're working with an early release (such as Weave 0.2).
The only thing that the FAQ mentions is that "you will be able to synchronize more settings in future versions of Opera", but it does not go into details at what to expect. Since Opera has no public road map for their web browser nor for Opera Link, it can be that Weave at this time of writing supports more synchronization options.
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