[indiana-discuss] Weave for Firefox

[Gary Gendel]

Alfred,

You can pick it up here:
http://www.genashor.com/mozilla/weave-0.2.7_SunOS_x86-sunc.xpi
This installer should install properly on windows, mac, linux, and
opensolaris/solaris x86.

As for Mozilla not taking any more registrations, what you need to do is
find a webdav service for you to use instead.  Mozilla made it a little
clumsy to do this from the get-go, but here are the steps needed to get
around this:

When you install weave it will reboot Firefox and try to sign you on to
Mozilla's webdav service.  At this point cancel the registration.  Then
left-click on the Weave icon at the bottom right of the Firefox status
bar and select "Preferences...".  Select the "Advanced" tab and change
the mozilla server to your server.  I would also select/de-select the
things that you want to sync up at this point too.  For me, I just
select bookmarks and passwords and de-select everything else.  Now you
should be able to sign in and "create" your account.

One caveat...  If you're using self-signed certificates, Firefox needs
you to make an exception for that certificate.  Weave won't tell you
this, but it will refuse to connect.  The easiest way I know to get
around it is to browse to your webdav url and follow the steps outlined
to import your certificate.  Once you can browse to that directory,
weave should work.

Gary

Alfred Peng wrote:
> On 12/23/08 10:58, Gary Gendel wrote:
>> The Mozilla Weave extension allows you to sync bookmarks, passwords,
>> forms, etc. between multiple Firefox installations securely.  It's
>> similar to Google Synchronizer, but better. It's one of those, once
>> you start using it you can't live without it.  Mozilla supports it
>> for Windows, Linux, and Mac, but not OpenSolaris.  I've been running
>> it against my OpenSolaris webdav server for many months and love it.
>>
>> I've just build it for OpenSolaris (SunOS_x86-sunc) and added it as a
>> supported platform in a firefox xpi installer.
>>
>> The question is... Does anyone want this?  I can make it available on
>> my home web-server as long as the demand isn't too high.  If anyone
>> wants to host the installer, I can make it available for that as well.
>>
>> Gary
>>    
> Hi Gary,
>
> Sounds great. I'd like to try that. If there is high demand from the
> OpenSolaris community, we can talk with Mozilla to host this on the
> Mozilla server as well.
>
> The problem is that this addon has account limit as notified on
> https://services.mozilla.com/: "We've reached our account limit, and
> have stopped accepting any new registrations at this time."
>
> Thanks,
> -Alfred

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