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- Sync installed extensions - Sync configuration and settings Even with your quite unusual requirements, sync could still be beneficial if you use multiple machines.
That's what nix is for.
Firefox sync may then only be for us regular mortals.
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It's too bad that I can't read the article - because I'm using Firefox and an ad blocker. I get "Something went wrong. Please disable your blocker on How-To Geek"
It shows nothing of the sorts for me. Try uBO if you are not using it.
Yes, it just works; but a few days back all my devices suddenly lost almost all of the passwords. Not all but most of them, couldn't make out any pattern or reason. Luckily a Linux laptop that I don't usually use had the full set and I had to export them, sync, and import them back to restore everywhere. Very scary, any ideas why this could've happened? I immediately backed up for the future, but this kind of loss sh…
It should not, but you probably should also not be keeping your passwords (only) there, encrypted or no.
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this is absolutely a killer feature if you follow the one account per stage per region guidance with AWS accounts (which you really should).
Can you say more about this?
but the containers extension associates each account's SSO token with the respective container, so you can switch between them freely. you can also color-code and label the tabs from each container, which makes it harder to forget whether you're looking at dev or prod.
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That's what nix is for.
On the phone as well? Impressive. Firefox sync may then only be for us regular mortals.
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Even better, you can host the sync server yourself: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs
Only downside to using your own sync server for your devices' Firefox Sync is that the Firefox/iOS cannot accept custom Sync server URL; with Firefox/iOS, you are stuck with Mozilla Sync server.
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On the phone as well? Impressive. Firefox sync may then only be for us regular mortals.
Alas, no. nix-on-droid runs in a proot, not as actual root. I've been meaning to put together something with actual root which reaches into nix-on-droid and does some kind of sync, but I'm not quite there yet.
If each application implements it's own sync mechanism that's just a lot more work overall.
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A local server that uses sentry and spanner? What?
You have an incredulous tone, but you can host Sentry (it's open source) and it's very common to host databases in the cloud.
Passwords belong in a dedicated password manager. Besides those, I don't understand what I'd want to sync. I've even disabled syncing tabs between sessions on the same machine. The last thing I need is for what I was doing yesterday to distract me from what I'm trying to do today. What I want in a browser is a dumb box that starts up as a blank slate every time, renders HTML and JavaScript, and is indistinguishable f…
> What I want in a browser is a dumb box that starts up as a blank slate every time
This is what I want from a TV too, and yet most people seem content buying ad-riddled, ACR enabled, streaming app pre-install, 20 second boot rubbish. I'm not sure you and I are the standard consumer market.