DoItFast4U

A couple weeks ago, Mozilla released their latest version of Weave 0.2.

In the release notes, it states that there a few known issues when used on Linux.

Well, it turns out those issues make it unable to be used unless you can figure out how to work around them.

With a bit of effort, I figured out an easy way to make Weave 0.2 work with Firefox 3:

1. Uninstall Weave from Firefox. Close Firefox.

2. Install working builds of libnss3 and libnspr:

NSPR:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15727099/libnspr4-0d_4.7.1%2B1.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.2%7Emt1_i386.deb

NSS:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15726878/libnss3-1d_3.12.0.3-0ubuntu0.8.04.1%7Emt1_i386.deb

The best way I've found to do this is not to install them using the debi installer, which fails because of other installed versions. Instead, download them into a folder, open a terminal and 'cd' to that folder. Run dpkg -i libn* and it should install the new versions while removing the old.

3. Open Firefox, and install Weave 0.2. Restart Firefox.

Follow the wizard and create a new account. You should be able to login now.

Note: You may see in your updates that there are 'newer' versions of nss3 and nspr4. Do NOT install them, or Weave will stop being able to authenticate.