I've been using this and it's been working great. I don't use folders anymore since this supports tags which are better. The data is easy to backup although I haven't done it very often. I've been using the hosted endpoint, but want to setup my own when I have time.
Xbrowsersync – open-source Bookmark Synching
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#12Do people really use their desktop bookmarks on their phones, and how? Actually even on desktop I'm parking pages in tabs, one browser window per virtual desktop, one virtual desktop per customer, plus some links on the bookmarks bar of Firefox. That basically killed my need for bookmarks. I had hundreds of them and I'm still carrying them with me but they are buried in the bookmarks menu and seldom see the light. At…
> Do people really use their desktop bookmarks on their phones, and how? Sure. I routinely add things to Pinboard, and check it on mobile. I often look up things I found interesting, but don't remember the link. Finding categories of things using a combination of tags, and being able to drill down further by adding more tags, is very powerful and convenient. I never understood how tab pinning in a certain browser is…
I can see how that would be difficult.
I use only one laptop, one OS and one main browser. Sometimes I open Chrome to test things but I close it right away. No need for anything there.
When I change laptop, not very often, I copy the mozilla directory to the new machine.
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#13This is super awesome. Together with bitwarden allows me to have multiple-browser data sync
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#14Another alternative: Mozilla's FF Sync is all open source and can be self-hosted. It's easy enough. It still authenticates through their endpoints, though, so if you want to do it fully self-hosted, you also need to host their identity and accounts stack, which is doable but not for the faint of heart.
Not really. It's an alternative to chrome/brave sync. Xbrowsersync will sync cross firefox/brave/chrome/edge.
Chrome and Brave don't have native tagging for bookmarks either, so this looks fantastic.
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#15Another alternative: Mozilla's FF Sync is all open source and can be self-hosted. It's easy enough. It still authenticates through their endpoints, though, so if you want to do it fully self-hosted, you also need to host their identity and accounts stack, which is doable but not for the faint of heart.
From the xbrowsersync FAQ: It can be self hosted, see https://github.com/xbrowsersync/api
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#16I found bookmarks to be inferior to just keeping tabs open. The other problem I have is that practically all the bookmarks I have saved over the years now point to broken links or missing domains; I could clean them up, but what’s the point? I don’t look at those links anymore anyway.
I’ve come to terms with the internet, and life in general, to be too much in flux for a piece of information to provide value for multiple years.
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#17All these syncers lack one important feature: local-only or otherwise visibility-managed bookmarks/folders. I don’t want my hentai preferences to be synced to my office and I don’t want all these company’s business bookmarks bs at home staring at me ruining my weekend mood.
I only want to sync a handful of specific folders: documentation, tools, localhost:ports, and few common mail/yt/github/etc, which are actually shared.
But they sync them all, and show them all. It’s like a dropbox, but it always syncs all your disks.
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#18I generally found floccus to be better
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#19All these syncers lack one important feature: local-only or otherwise visibility-managed bookmarks/folders. I don’t want my hentai preferences to be synced to my office and I don’t want all these company’s business bookmarks bs at home staring at me ruining my weekend mood. I only want to sync a handful of specific folders: documentation, tools, localhost:ports, and few common mail/yt/github/etc, which are actually s…
because it's pointless. just use different browser profiles for work stuff and fun stuff.
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#20Synching -> Syncing