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A new version of Mozilla Weave was released tonight, and the developer was kind enough to include me in the special thanks section!

From https://labs.mozilla.com/forum/index.php?topic=1170.0

"Highlights:

* Some fixes to the deadlock problem (which causes sync to appear to take forever but not actually do anything)
* Some improvements to sync on quit (we now wait to quit if there's a sync running, regardless of the syncOnQuit.enabled pref)
* Tweaks to how aggressively the addon tries to sync, to curb server load and make the server respond faster.
* Cache crypto keys, previously we would download them multiple times per sync, even though they basically never change.
* Add target platform information to the xpi, so that users on unsupported platforms get errors right away instead of in the middle of set-up.

A *huge* thanks to the community members that out with this release. Those of you who submitted bugs, helped with testing (iav, Fallen, Basilevs, and others), submitted patches (Pazu, Godwin), helped with the wiki/FAQ (D leaper, Eyes`Only, Onestone, Godwin, Malan, Mordeth), and to everyone else who helped answer questions in the forums and on IRC. Thank you! Your help is appreciated."

If you haven't tried Mozilla Weave, it's definitely a useful extension for anyone that has multiple computers and uses Firefox 3 no matter what OS you're running.

Get it here: http://people.mozilla.com/~cbeard/weave/dist/

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.