#firefoxsync — Public Fediverse posts

Firefox aufm PC und aufm Handy. Ich denke darüber nach die sync Funktion zu nutzen. Macht das jemand? Ist das hilfreich oder eher technischer Spielkram?

#Firefox #Android #FirefoxSync

I have completed writing an Ansible role to self-host Firefox Sync server. Thanks to Ansible being just YAML, I hope others can be helped even without running the role by simply reading the code, comments, and commit messages.

https://codeberg.org/ansible/mozilla-syncserver

#FirefoxSync #selfhosted #Ansible #codeberg

How does #PaleMoon compare to other web #browsers when it comes to the security of synced data?

Pale Moon ( #Weave ):

• Your secret key is never sent to our servers, we only have encrypted data which we can never read without your key :KanneThumbsUp:
• Pairing a new device while having an already synced device nearby is easy and does not need your sync account’s email and password, while still being cryptographically secure: the target device can generate a random 12-character code which will be inputted in the device already synced with your account in order to complete pairing. This preferred “quick link” method uses J-PAKE to transfer credentials and the secret key without having to show them to the screen, therefore avoiding key disclosure better. See our docs: https://www.palemoon.org/sync/help/easy-setup.shtml
• If an already synced device is not nearby, then you will need your account’s email and password. To get the synced data, you will need a copy of your secret key. If you don’t have access to any synced device which will have your key, then you can generate a new one within the browser itself (after logging in with your credentials), but all synced data stored in the server will be inaccessible and erased. :KanneThumbsUp:
• The sync service is not meant for long-term backup and our storage is limited, therefore we limit each account’s sync storage to 30 MB, and if your account has not been synced for 2 or 3 months straight, we schedule your synced data or account respectively for deletion in the next maintenance window.
• Resetting your sync account’s password within the browser is not yet supported. However as long as nobody has your key, nobody will ever be able to access it, and given enough time, your data in encrypted form will not even be in our servers anymore because of the regular maintenance. For now you will have to DM Moonchild on the forums to get him to delete your account so you can re-register: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=31143&p=251609#p251616
• Sync service can be self-hosted! Source code for the implementation we use can be found at https://repo.palemoon.org/Moonchild/FSyncMS. It is basically a minimal #Weave / Sync 1.1, which is the previous sync system Mozilla used before Firefox 29 moved to Sync 1.5 + FxA, and it requires a LEMP stack.

Mozilla Firefox ( #FirefoxSync ):

• Synced data cannot be read by Mozilla :KanneThumbsUp:
• Your secret key is sent to Mozilla’s servers, but it is first hashed client-side with your Firefox Account’s (FxA) password before it’s sent :02think:
• This means by default (i.e. one didn’t place a 2FA in their FxA) one can pair a new device and recover their synced data as long as one knows the FxA password, even if they can’t access any of the synced devices. The security of your synced data depends solely on your FxA password (which is why we didn’t adopt it and kept/brought back Sync 1.1 even if it got completely removed by the time we made our final hard fork of Firefox 52 ESR’s platform code) :02think:
• If you forget your Firefox account’s password and reset it, your previously synced data will be inaccessible :KanneThumbsUp:
• Can be self-hosted, but truly self-hosting everything is a bit complicated because the sync service is dependent on FxA’s authentication service which is its own server. :02think: Docs can be found here: https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Google Chrome:

• Synced data can be read by Google by default :cat_stare:
• Data can be made unreadable even to Google by setting a passphrase, but that’s dependent on the passphrase’s strength :02think:
• Resetting your passphrase will make previously synced data inaccessible :KanneThumbsUp:
• Authentication can be three-factor: your Google account’s password, then the Google account’s own 2FA (e.g. TOTP), and lastly the local passphrase.
• Details about the sync system is obscure, so the above is based on what we probably know. :shrugakko: Obviously this means Chrome’s sync can’t be self-hosted

#sync #mozilla #firefox #google #chrome

I really want to keep using & supporting #gecko but #Mozilla is going down the toilet- what to do?

#Firefox desktop -> #LibreWolf (that was easy, simply copied my profile and it all came back exactly as before)

#Firefox mobile -> #IronFox (also easy on #GrapheneOS via #Accrescent store)

I can still use #FirefoxSync on both which is nice 'cos I am not quite ready to leave that convenience yet.

Now it's mostly just a matter of replacing my dependency on #Pocket (compiled out of LibreWolf), but that was on my list of services to deprecate anyway...

Is there any viable replacement for #Mozilla Sync? I just want to have bookmarks synced and open tabs visible across desktop and mobile. That's the main dependency I have on Mozilla as a corp and I'd quite like to ditch it!

#firefox #firefoxsync #firefoxgate #mozillafirefox #mozillagate

Czy dobrze mi się wydaje, że nie ma możliwości synchronizacji zakładek mobilnego Firefoksa/Fenka z Nextcloud Bookmarks?
Rozszerzenia Floccus, działające bez problemów z desktopowym Firefoksem/LibreWolfem/itd. nie działa w androidowych przeglądarkach.

Czy jest jakiś sposób na synchronizację zakładek desktop-mobile bez użycia Firefox Sync?

#Firefox #FirefoxSync #Fennec #NextcloudBookmarks #synchronizacja #synchronizacjaZakładek #Floccus

Does anyone know if there's any kind of replacement for #firefoxsync ? If I am not mistaken, originally it was possible to run private instances of the #mozilla sync service. It would be cool if there were an extension that could save your data/settings as encrypted blobs on some cloud storage and update/retrieve the settings as needed. #librewolf #askfedi

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Good idea! Transition from :firefox: #Firefox to :librewolf: #LibreWolf was super easy and everything works as usual after enabling #FirefoxSync in the settings and loggin in.

https://gitlab.com/nobodyinperson/nixconfig/-/commit/9b8ab8dd732f3110d3765a211258bd4288ca6574

If you use Firefox Sync to send web pages from mobile to devices with a larger screen, it's very annoying to see all your computers named as "user's Firefox on ...", "user's Firefox on ...", ... so you can't tell which icon is which.

Under the Account → Settings menu (which may only be under the hamburger menu) there's an Account Settings page that allows you to change your computer name to something shorter.

#Firefox #FirefoxSync #annoyances #android

(2/)

Well, as expected, I had to sign out and sign in again for it to work! 😐

#FirefoxSync

Fuck! Firefox Sync sucks.

I just installed the Firefox Container Tabs add-on, and it asked me to sign-in again for the extension to work. I was already signed in.

So, I signed in again. The extension worked, but I was signed out of Firefox and it created a new device under my account and again signed me in.

Now, this new device refuses to sync properly with my account. It doesn't even show up in my other devices, so I can't even share a tab to it! 🙃

What's more- it deleted the older "device" from the list, the device.

this is not the first time, and it's frustrating.

I may have overused the word device, and not clearly communicated it, though! :blobcatgiggle:

#Firefox
#FirefoxSync

https://www.howtogeek.com/the-best-reason-to-use-firefox-is-sync-that-actually-works/

This article has a point to make, in short, regardless of privacy, speed, or any other feature, one really good reason to use Firefox, is a sync system that just plain works.

You can share bookmarks, open tabs, recently closed dabs, history and just about anything else between any Firefox browser, be it desktop, mobile, or whatever. It just plain works.

The article goes into more depth, but that's the gist of it.

#Browser #InternetBrowser #Firefox #FirefoxSync

"Thing is: #Firefox #Sync was built with privacy in mind. It was encrypting all data from the very start, by default. #Mozilla’s goal was never monetizing this data.

#Google on the other hand built a sync service that allowed them to collect all of users’ data, with a tiny encryption shim on top of it."

If you don't want Google to see (and #censor!) your bookmarks: Enable #SyncPassphrase. Or better: Switch to Firefox!
#FirefoxSync #Chrome #ChromeSync
https://palant.info/2023/08/29/chrome-sync-privacy-is-still-very-bad/

@richards Will @mozilla ever release the code to a #FirefoxSync server that does not use #Python2?

ok everyone what's your favorite variant of #firefox? i haven't used vanilla firefox as primary because of the below, but maybe there's a variant.

1. #FirefoxSync: i don't trust it. they claim e2e hashing voodoo, but there's one password, and they know it. i would really like sync though
2. librewolf: is *too* aggressive and can't be my everyday primary

but my chromium variant will be made shitty any day now, so need a plan

@mkj
Yep there is a newer version of #FirefoxSync written in #Rust

https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs

@hyde
Of course!

The #FirefoxSync server can be #selfhosted

There is an API for fetching the history https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sync/objectformats.html#history

You can also fetch the bookmarks!

@hyde
An have an idea 💡
A scheduled task that loads the history from #FirefoxSync and pushes it to #Archivebox
In that way the server manages the whole archiving in the background!

Bon mon zinzinternet ! Je galère avec tous mes liens Firefox (qui sont réparti sur plusieurs périphériques).

Je me demande si je dois passer par un combo #shaarli + #wallabag (via #yunohost) ou un compte #firefox 🤔

Il semble que #firefoxsync ne soit plus maintenu.

Je me demande aussi si je ne ferai pas tout dans #nextcloud 🤔

Des idées / retours ? 🙂

:boost_requested:

@cr0n0s en los FAQ está la forma de habilitar firefox sync:
🔗 https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#can-i-use-firefox-sync-with-librewolf-is-it-safe-to-do-so

Con eso habilitado me daba un error 500 al tratar de conectar, lo que se soluciona agregando la siguiente línea al archivo de config override:

defaultPref("privacy.resistFingerprinting", false);

🔗 https://www.reddit.com/r/LibreWolf/comments/10itkgy/firefox_accounts_sync_error_500/

Una vez que habilitas la sincronización, se puede quitar esa línea.

#Librewolf #FirefoxSync #Firefox

After having migrated my #yunohost server to the latest version 11, the #FirefoxSync server it was hosting stopped working, since it was running on python2 and is not being maintained by #mozillla anymore.

So now I'm looking for another way to synchronize my #firefox data that I can #selfHost. I'm talking about my history, tabs, addons, ...

Do you know of a tool or some kind of hack to achieve this?

Wieso lassen sich im #Firefox für #Android bzw. #Fennec eigentlich keine Lesezeichen exportieren? Nein, ich will euren ollen Sync-Dienst nicht #Mozilla, von dem ihr es nicht schafft den aktuellen code offen zu legen. 🙄 Hat vielleicht jemand noch eine andere Idee?
#FirefoxAndroid #FirefoxSync