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Has anyone successfully self-hosted Firefox Sync? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 hours ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yes. But it was a while ago (pre Rust) when I ran my own accounts server. I only self-host sycserver-rs now.

That being said, I'm pretty sire the mail verification is built in, so even if you self host accounts you'd have to make modifications.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Can you do something with syncserver-rs alone? Even after I log in with Mozilla account and setting sync server URL to point to mine, nothing appears in the database.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

As far as I know from my own attempt, you can't easily self host the accounts part, only the syncserver

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

~~Not for years. It's Rust now~~.

Doh, should have kept reading 😆 Rust is used in production now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Maybe they referred to the Rust version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, the new one was seemingly always just shy of being ready to use

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You can, it's just more complex.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

That why I said 'easily', there's no ready to go solution you could just plop into a compose file