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.
no help to you, but my god is it convoluted and complex; every year or so I look up if there’s been some change in that regard and every time I stop reading halfway through the setup instructions. maybe next year…
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.
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.
Yea, it works for me, but there were no great guides. If nothing is in the DB, try checking HTTP error codes, or setting the
RUST_LOGtotrace(which gives you a log line for every item synced).A problem I had that seemed like nothing was saving was the nginx proxy wasn’t doing things right, and I couldn’t tell. Using the local IP worked, and after making some nginx config tweaks I got it working.
I ended up making suggestions here based on my experience: https://github.com/porelli/firefox-sync
I didn’t exactly use that repo, but started with it and use their images. Their nginx config works, though.
Thank you!
Let me know if it works out for you, if not I can try to help.
As far as I know from my own attempt, you can’t easily self host the accounts part, only the syncserver
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.
Not for years. It’s Rust now.Doh, should have kept reading 😆 Rust is used in production now.
Maybe they referred to the Rust version.
Yeah, the new one was seemingly always just shy of being ready to use
You can, it’s just more complex.
That why I said ‘easily’, there’s no ready to go solution you could just plop into a compose file
