Weave 0.4, now with autologin magic

Mozilla Labs has released an important update to Weave, a Firefox extension that aims to synchronizes the complete Firefox user experience among all computers you use and have installed Weave on, including mobile devices running Fennec (available for Windows Mobile and Maemo).

Weave is now capable of synchronizing preferences in addition to tabs, forms, passwords, history and bookmarks as seen in previous versions.It also improves startup performance, provides a better API for extension developers, and most notably, the ability to automatically log into sites, as initially demonstrated last May.

A better new tab page from Mozilla Labs

New tabs are not an end by themselves, they are a means to get to the real content we need. This is the approach that Mozilla Labs has embraced when designing a smarter, more efficient new tab page to replace the current blank one we get whenever we add a tab.

Of course this is not new at all. Opera was perhaps the first browser to do something for a more efficient new tab page with its Speed Dial feature that added nine user defined links (by default) to new tab pages, making it easier for users to reach their most visited sites.

Google Chrome took a more dynamic approach including the most visited and most frequently visited web pages along with recently closed tabs.