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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox by ajphdiv on Monday December 30, 2019 @09:32AM (#21913537)
Sync can also be self hosted.

https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver

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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox by stiray on Monday December 30, 2019 @09:56AM (#21913681)
I love firefox but this is one hell of an annoyance I would beat author with a large trump. A hellofablob of dependencies etc. Like it was deliberately build to not self host it (and no I dont want docker).

I really really really hate it for almost 10 years. There was a project rewritting it in go but was abandoned and probably the next thing I will develop will be a replacement .

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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox by paulddraper on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:04PM (#21916708)
> and no I dont want docker

Forgive me, but it sounds like you just want to be unhappy about the distribution, because that solves your problem pretty well.

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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox by stiray on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @06:05AM (#21920222)
I have freebsd server and jails. Ergo, docker doesnt solve my problem.
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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox by mrmuagi on Monday December 30, 2019 @01:47PM (#21915669)
Given it's written in python 2.7, it's due for a rewrite if I understand.
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Re:Switching from Chrome to Firefox by em-bee on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @08:11AM (#21920752)
maybe not deliberately, but i can imagine that it wasn't built with self-hosting in mind, until someone (from inside or outside) pushed for a self-hosting option.

is there a documented API? how much does it really take to sync? if it's browser encrypted it would really be just login, push or pull a blob. how hard can that be?

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