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…something self hosted? The Firefox Sync web service is provided by Mozilla but can be self hosted: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs . That could also be used in forks. See e.g. https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#can-i-use-fir…

comment by master-lincoln · 2025-12-17 · in Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

…in docker image [3]). And those can be used even with Firefox itself not only the forks. [1] https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs [2] https://mozilla.github.io/ecosystem-platform/tutorials/devel... [3]…

comment by elashri · 2025-12-17 · in Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

Lucky us, you can do this today, because, of course, it is Mozilla, so it is open source: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs

comment by Propelloni · 2025-03-14 · in A look at Firefox forks

There's a MR open: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/49...

comment by JetSpiegel · 2025-03-01 · in Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server

The API docs are linked here: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs?tab=readm...

comment by layer8 · 2025-03-01 · in Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server

In the documentation ( https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs?tab=readm... ), it looks like updating an about:config variable should be all you need to do: > In Firefox, go to about:config. Change identity.sync.tokenserver.uri…

comment by jeroenhd · 2025-03-01 · in Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server

…of users rather than being a minimal implementation for someone in a home lab. One could fork https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs , take out the plumbing, and reimplement it all without a secondary database and the Google…

comment by jeroenhd · 2025-03-01 · in Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server

…do I force Firefox (Librewol) using the self-hosted URL? Is there an about:config setting? 1: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/49...

comment by sandreas · 2025-03-01 · in Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server

…activity (slides, books ..etc) and mainly using webdav features to sync zotero documents. [1] https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs

comment by elashri · 2024-10-29 · in Ask HN: There is an open-source alternative to almost any SaaS, what do you use?

…up periodically of bugs that have been open longer than a lot of developers have been alive 1: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs#running-v...

comment by mdaniel · 2024-10-05 · in Mitmproxy 11: Full HTTP/3 Support

Here is the repo for reference: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs

comment by SeriousM · 2024-09-11 · in Ask HN: How do you sync ongoing browser work between desktop and laptop?

…to be that it requires a mozilla account server. https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...…

comment by m463 · 2024-06-23 · in Anybody have problems with bookmark organization like me?

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Host your own Firefox Sync Server

story by nateb2022 · 2024-01-23 · 0 comments

Even better, you can host the sync server yourself: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs

comment by GeoAtreides · 2023-12-28 · in Firefox Sync actually works

Including self-hosting the sync server, if preferred: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs

comment by starkparker · 2023-12-09 · in Firefox Keeps Getting Faster

> The alternative is https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs which is ridiculously hard to set up. https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/49... This is the issue to watch, supporting SQLite. This makes it…

comment by JetSpiegel · 2023-09-01 · in Can Chrome Sync or Firefox Sync be trusted with sensitive data? (2018)

…, see https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver/commit/8d9804... The alternative is https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs which is ridiculously hard to set up.

comment by WirelessGigabit · 2023-08-29 · in Can Chrome Sync or Firefox Sync be trusted with sensitive data? (2018)

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Ask HN: Is anyone successfully self-hosting Firefox Sync?

story by hosteur · 2023-02-06 · 115 comments

…it seems from this issue that self-hosting Firefox Sync is not actually documented or supported: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/68...

comment by hosteur · 2023-02-06 · in Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

Looks like you can with some extra steps https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs

comment by cx0der · 2023-02-03 · in Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

…an easy order. Are there cases where this can't be applied in new projects? [1] For an example, see https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/tree/mast... in combination with https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/blob/…

comment by mqus · 2022-06-02 · in Database as Code – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

It seems that self-hosted Firefox Sync is NOT currently supported: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/55... https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/68... It seems they are migrating the solution…

comment by hosteur · 2022-06-01 · in Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

The Firefox Sync Storage source code, licensed under MPL-2.0 and fully documented, is right here: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs It includes a Docker Compose setup. Standard directory servers aren't specifically built…

comment by commoner · 2022-05-28 · in Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox

I believe that https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs is intended to be the modern syncserver replacement.

comment by milescrabill · 2022-03-18 · in LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom

I believe they have shifted to a Rust implementation. https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs

comment by the_duke · 2021-09-11 · in Why Firefox has been in decline for 12 years

…it within the team or there was no reason to use Go (yep, it is not a perfect tool). ;) [0]: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs [1]: https://github.com/rxi/lite

comment by pqb · 2021-06-05 · in Zero to Production in Rust

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Syncstorage-rs: Sync Storage server in Rust

story by severine · 2020-03-19 · 0 comments

…as a storage to keep compatibility with the latest version of Firefox Sync Server protocol. [0]: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs

comment by piotrkubisa · 2020-02-14 · in Multi-account containers add-on sync feature

…or Firefox Notes [3] which are written in Kotlin, not Java. Please, do update this article. [0]: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/commits/m... [1]: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver/commits/maste... [2]:…

comment by piotrkubisa · 2019-08-02 · in Contributing to the Mozilla code base