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Monorepo for Mozilla Accounts (formerly Firefox Accounts)

7 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2019-04-19 · latest 2025-03-13

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  1. …Accounts and Sync are both open source, and I'm struggling to think of anything else i.e. https://github.com/mozilla/fxa
    comment by TheDong · 2025-03-13 · in Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google
  2. …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...
  3. …involved. Compared to when I last set it up they seem to have been improving on docs and devex. https://github.com/mozilla/fxa https://mozilla.github.io/ecosystem-platform/tutorials/devel... https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest…
    comment by 3np · 2025-03-01 · in Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server
  4. …and it's all done in the open but it's clearly built with the mindset of a cloud-based startup. https://github.com/mozilla/fxa Once up and running it has been hands off, not much maintenance at all. Happy I did it but unless you like doing…
  5. …just how transparent Mozilla actually is, I think. Here's the start of the mentioned migration https://github.com/mozilla/fxa/issues/10635
  6. I believe you can host your own instance of the back end portion if you wish: https://github.com/mozilla/fxa
    comment by mulmen · 2020-05-06 · in Firefox 76
  7. …used it a few years ago. That documentation even seems a bit outdated -- the new monorepo is here: https://github.com/mozilla/fxa . I eventually abandoned it when I was cutting back on things I had to manage, but maybe I'll take another…
    comment by cdubzzz · 2019-04-19 · in Mozilla WebThings