I use around 10 browser profiles, each of which has its own set of bookmarks, plugins, self-enforced rules, etc. I want to synchronise browsing history, bookmarks, plugins using a single account. They are managed with a dedicated Firefox account, but I was wondering if I can self host accounts so that I can synchronise stuff over my VPN, and I don’t have to do mail verification every time I create a new profile. But I can’t find much on how online.
I know syncserver-rs but that is not enough. The accounts are still registered with Mozilla’s server.
no help to you, but my god is it convoluted and complex; every year or so I look up if there’s been some change in that regard and every time I stop reading halfway through the setup instructions. maybe next year…
I don’t think you can sync all those items anyway. I use Mozilla’s sync, and it doesn’t sync all my settings or extensions.
Last time I checked, some people were using syncthing to sync the whole profile folder, but I feel like that’s just a recipe for profile corruption. I don’t know if it works cross-platform either.
It syncs my extensions, except for mobile the ones that aren’t available (obviously)
As far as I know from my own attempt, you can’t easily self host the accounts part, only the syncserver
An the Syncserver still runs on Python2 with multiple known vulnerabilities.
There is a new Syncserver written in Rust, but it seems in continous half finished state or so.
Yeah, the new one was seemingly always just shy of being ready to use
