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So I'm currently moving to new phone, after 4 years. My Firefox history is essential to me, it is a huge, indispensable and private index for stuff I know. And
by zaat 5y ago
So I'm currently moving to new phone, after 4 years. My Firefox history is essential to me, it is a huge, indispensable and private index for stuff I know. And now it is taken as hostage by the lovely Mozilla foundation, since the only supported way to transfer it to my new phone is by using their syncing service.
I don't want to have account there, nor do I want to create mail account for creating one. Offering users no other choice to get their data is user hostile on a degree akin to Google's level. It boils my blood.
- beeboop 5y agoIf it helps at all, all your Firefox data is encrypted client side before getting uploaded.
- nulld3v 5y agoFirefox history has a limit though and I'm pretty sure you've hit after 4 years of browsing. This is why I maintain my own history index.
- zaat 5y agoDon't even get me started on that unconfigurable limit. Still, there's a very long list that still there. How do you maintain your own index?
- nulld3v 5y agoI have a custom extension that sends my history to a SQL database (I didn't put much effort in making it easy to use for other people so I honestly wouldn't recommend you use it): https://github.com/null-dev/Historian https://github.com/null-dev/Historian. What I would recommend is just making both your history and bookmarks browser agnostic. That way you don't have to worry about limits and you can switch browsers whenever you want. I'm sure there are extensions out there that can sync data between different browsers, I remember looking at xBrowserSync a while ago: https://www.xbrowsersync.org/ https://www.xbrowsersync.org/. I don't know how well it works though as I've never used it.