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After writing a blog article about creating your own Mozilla Weave server, i started to get excited about Weave. It’s a pretty darn usable application.

I know it’s pretty early to start writing a blog about using Mozilla Weave in Thunderbird, but i’m writing this to have a complete howto available at the moment the Weave extension DOES work in Thunderbird.

Mozilla recently announced preliminary Thunderbird support in Weave 0.2.6 so i just had to test this. There’s no documentation available anywhere and it seems that it’s just the extension installing correctly, but that’s about it at the moment.

First of all, you will need at least the first Alpha version of Thunderbird 3. Right now, i’m testing it with Thunderbird Shredder, which is version 3.0a2 (2008072418) to be exact. You can download it from the Mozilla FTP at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/

Let’s say you have Thunderbird 3 installed already. Next step will be to download the latest Weave. You can download it at http://people.mozilla.com/~cbeard/weave/dist/latest-weave.xpi and place it on your desktop or somewhere else. Why do i type bold? Well, if you’re using Firefox to download it, it will try to install Weave on your Firefox and that’s not what we want .

All screenshots are clickable, so you can see what i’m doing. At first, open up Shredder.

Click on the ‘Tools’ > ‘Addons’ buttons to open up the extensions dialog for Shredder. On your left, there’s an ‘Install’ button. Hit that.

You just downloaded the latest Weave to your desktop, so let’s install the thingie.

Shredder will give you a warning that the author has not been verified. Well.. this is pretty normal as it is all Alpha software. Just install anyway. It’s not gonna work anyway at this moment .

After the installation, you have to restart Shredder for the extension to become available. After that, the beautiful Weave icon will appear in the lower-right corner of your Shredder screen. If you click on that, you will see the preferences of Weave. Well.. For now that’s actually all you can do with it. To bad, but i believe that Weave can become very handy for synchronizing account data, e-mail, contacts etcetera.

When you try to login, nothing will happen.

Stay tuned for more…