[degrees57]

I'd like to ask if there is a bookmark sync function and plugin sync function in any of these alternatives.

It does seem to me that Mozilla corporation management has become corrupted, and will only get worse; so I'd like to move off Mozilla Firefox and onto something else.

But I really like that when I wipe a machine and install a new OS, first I install the Bitwarden plugin, then that lets me log in to the Mozilla account, and then that syncs down all my plugins and bookmarks into Firefox. I really like my Temporary Containers plugin in Firefox, for example, in addition to uBlock Origin. But all of them, really: the GNU Terry Pratchet plugin is fun.

The Mozilla Firefox solution does also work both on Linux and Windows.

If there is some other form of sync for plugins and bookmarks, then I'd leap at Librewolf or Waterfox or Icecat. But I am unaware of a sync solution that would work.

Anyone have something they like? I can self-host if that is an option.

[mdaniel]

Depending on how far those Firefox forks have deviated, self-hosting the Firefox sync services has been a thing for quite a long time: https://github.com/mozilla/fxa and https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...

[degrees57]

Thank you. I was unaware of this.

[homebrewer]

Brave has sync which does not rely on a centralized server — it's peer to peer between your machines only. I encourage you to do your own research on it because the hivemind's opinion was solidified long ago and results in repeating lots of nonsense that has little connection to reality.

(I don't use it except for web development, but I also despise FUD.)

[weikju]

> Brave has sync which does not rely on a centralized server

Didn't they change that to some more centralized solution in the past couple of years, citing difficulties with peer-to-peer syncing?

> Sync v1 was a completely custom sync system, built as part of the old “Muon” browser. Sync v1 stored all data into an encrypted log on S3. New browsers joining the sync chain had to download all the logs and re-assemble the events in order. The browsers were also responsible for cleaning up out of date data records.

> Sync v2 was rebuilt to be more directly compatible with the Chromium sync system (Chromium is the same open source base of Google’s Chrome and Brave). Brave built a sync server that more directly followed Chromium’s sync protocol, but defaulting instead to use encrypted data records. Sync v2 more easily supports more sync data types, while still keeping the client side data encrypted, so only you can see your data.

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047642371-Syn...

[JumpCrisscross]

> the hivemind's opinion was solidified long ago

I have vetoed it at several organisations on the basis of its crypto tie in. Has that changed?

[degrees57]

Thank you; I didn't know that Brave has a peer-to-peer sync.