Re:Google had a plan called “Project NERA” to turn the web i...
by AshamedCaptain on Sunday October 24, 2021 @12:42PM
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> back in the day you could self-host Firefox Sync
Yep -- and this is why I personally think there's something rotten in Mozilla.
At the beginning there were 3rd party extensions to sync bookmarks that just allowed you to point to any webdav server (which is trivial to self-host). At some point Mozilla decided to implement this functionality as a 1st party extension, thereby displacing all the other 3rd party extensions that were doing the same (and later on outright killing these extensions, by changing the APIs and making the new ones buggy).
And once the other extensions were killed, they started to make it harder and harder to self-host. Up to the point I gave up self-hosting Firefox Sync; it's just not worth the effort, and I really see absolutely no need for such a huge infrastructure for what could be done with plain clothes WebDAV.
That is the day Mozilla earned my distrust. I basically use Firefox (or its forks) just because there is no other choice.
Yep -- and this is why I personally think there's something rotten in Mozilla.
At the beginning there were 3rd party extensions to sync bookmarks that just allowed you to point to any webdav server (which is trivial to self-host). At some point Mozilla decided to implement this functionality as a 1st party extension, thereby displacing all the other 3rd party extensions that were doing the same (and later on outright killing these extensions, by changing the APIs and making the new ones buggy).
And once the other extensions were killed, they started to make it harder and harder to self-host. Up to the point I gave up self-hosting Firefox Sync; it's just not worth the effort, and I really see absolutely no need for such a huge infrastructure for what could be done with plain clothes WebDAV.
That is the day Mozilla earned my distrust. I basically use Firefox (or its forks) just because there is no other choice.