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Also, in my mind, exchanging Chrome's insistence on Google logins is just the same as Firefox's insistence on their proprietary sync and pocket. I'll say no to
by corty 5y ago
Also, in my mind, exchanging Chrome's insistence on Google logins is just the same as Firefox's insistence on their proprietary sync and pocket. I'll say no to every one of those things, because I do value my privacy and none of them provide proper self-hosted options.
- ragesh 5y agoI thought it was possible to host your own sync server for Firefox. Is this no longer true?
- corty 5y agoIt is theoretically true. They have changed the protocol at least three times, there are no user-accessible settings (just about:config) to point at your own sync server, there is no documentation. And at their rate of breaking stuff, your sync server will be obsolete as soon as you get it running. Happened to me, will never waste time on it again. And the open-source version of the sync server is bad software, age-old python, tons of code smells. I'd wager it is not what they are using themselves.
- cnst 5y agoChances are it is the version they're using themselves, too. Proprietary software is often way worse than any of the OSS projects.
- the_duke 5y agoSync is optional, and you can use a custom server and self host it.
- charles-m-knox 5y agoLast I checked, self-hosted Firefox sync uses Python 2.7, with dead GitHub activity. Not quite the best state for Firefox sync.
- the_duke 5y agoI believe they have shifted to a Rust implementation. https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs
- charles-m-knox 5y agoOk, I'm relieved to see that this exists. Thank you.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoAnd it's end to end encrypted unlike Google and Microsoft's offerings
- yoasif_ 5y agoFirefox Sync is open source: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver