Alan Edwardes

Mozilla Weave Is Quite Annoying

Mozilla Weave is starting to piss me off. Yeah it offerers you a cloud based firefox profile sync for free, but the damn thing is so annoying. I would class myself as the target "market" as it were for this product, as I have two computers that I regularly use Firefox on, and I need my settings and stuff copied between the two.

The problem is that Weave tries to sync with the server EVERY time I start Firefox, and I'm the kind of person who regularly forgets to do stuff, and I have to open Firefox again. Every time I open Firefox, I get the same turning icon in the corner of my screen and some jerky behaviour from Firefox itself. If you close Firefox while a sync is going on, a window will continue the sync while the firefox main window is closed. This is all well and good but if you then re-open Firefox again, when the sync completes in the separate window it will completely close all instances of Firefox, regardless of whether you're using it or not.

Below is a list of completely basic things I want fixed before new features are developed.

  • Stop completely closing Firefox when the sync window closes.
  • Only perform sync if it has been at least 10+ mins since the last one.
  • Don't completely block off Firefox when a manual sync is initiated.

Other than that it's good software, and for most of the time works seamlessly.

26th of August 2008 at 9:03 AM

3 years, 8 months ago

written by Alan Edwardes.

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