Mozilla Labs has released version 0.2 of weave.  Weave is an interesting Firefox extension designed to syncronized Firefox profiles between several computers (ie: work, laptop, home).  This version, at least according to reports, is more stable and doesn’t cause the browser to crash after a few hours.   It also apparently has a very interesting installation wizard.  The only concern I have, at least at the moment, seems to be that it is using a third party for the syncronization and doesn’t have the option to setup your own server to handle the syncs.  However, it does encrypt things using RSA public/private keys and AES and lets you set the passphrase … so … maybe okay.  Oh, and it seems to use Captcha … which, as we know, is dead.

However, those of us interested in building extensions might want to disassemble the extension to see how they did the setup wizard.  I doubt it is that complex.

Great article over on the Guardian about how captcha is broken.   Check it out: Captcha is broken - now what?.