First look: Mozilla Weave 0.2 puts Firefox in the cloud

Mozilla has announced the availability of Weave 0.2, the new version of its Firefox synchronization add-on. Ars tests this version and takes a close look at the underlying architecture.<BR><BR>Read More

 

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Until Weave is working nicely, there is always Foxmarks. I was skeptical at first, but it was a lot more polished than Google Bookmark Sync ever was. I'd often have machines go out of sync with Google. Never with Foxmarks.

 

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by typhus:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">The latest version extends this functionality to also cover cookies, passwords, tabs, and form contents. </div></BLOCKQUOTE> <BR><BR>This will be interesting. Form contents will include credit card data. Since PCI is an industry regulated set of compliance rules there is no way to enforce anything but it's not going to be secure. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>PCI-DSS only applies to merchants and transaction processing service providers. The PAN needs to be encrypted on the mechant and service providers' end. Since it would be the end user sending his plaintext information to a 3rd party service this wouldn't apply.

 

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Izzmo:<BR>What the.. hasn't anyone heard of Maxthon? That was their whole theory behind the browser. And it works great and fast too, not to mention there are loads of plugins and mods for it.<BR><BR>Ignorant people! </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Except we're talking about Firefox add-ons, something Maxthon isn't.<BR><BR>From what I can tell, Maxthon is an extension for IE or its own browser. It also is Windows only.