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Re:The Most Compelling Reason to Use Firefox Is Sync That Works by poisonborz on Thursday December 28, 2023 @10:23AM (#38794271)
You can selfhost the sync server
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Re:The Most Compelling Reason to Use Firefox Is Sync That Works by mihular on Thursday December 28, 2023 @10:43AM (#38794517)
How is this working nowadays? A few years back it wasn't exactly easy to self host. Ideally there would be a docker image and a docker compose config.
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Re:The Most Compelling Reason to Use Firefox Is Sync That Works by smarterhome on Thursday December 28, 2023 @12:02PM (#38795525)
It works pretty well actually! I love FF sync and I started self hosting it earlier this year. You can find the full details (also changes needed in the browser settings) here: https://thesmarthomejourney.com/2023/03/18/self-hosting-fire... I only wish they would make their new rust based server available via docker(-compose) too. I have not found a working version of that yet
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Re:The Most Compelling Reason to Use Firefox Is Sync That Works by paulmd on Thursday December 28, 2023 @11:11AM (#38794883)
I was looking at this recently and still couldn’t make it work smoothly. The server itself is fine but I couldn’t get Firefox to pick up the new sync server url from about:config.

Possibly my fault and I need to poke at it a little more but in general I can start a docker container just fine so I feel like its maybe not quite there yet.

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