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self hosted browser sync? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 hours ago by ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Had a thought, but some quick searching didn't really give me much.

Is there such a thing as a browser that respects privacy, and can be synched through self hosted means?

I'd be looking for tab sync, bookmark, history, etc.

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[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Librewolf, you can host your own sync server.

[–] johntash@eviltoast.org 1 points 14 minutes ago

I forgot about librewolf. Any downsides to it over Firefox?

[–] 4k93n2@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

ive been using floccus for a few years now and no complaints

i havnt tried syncing tabs but i think its an option. what i do have is a one-way sync job for the tabs in each browser so i at least have a backup of them, and each browser has its own file, but i would imagine if you tried to sync the same file between multiple devices it would just get very messy at some point

[–] anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

You could use KaraKeep (formerly Hoarder) with the Hoarder's Pipette extension maybe?

[–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Did you check out https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver?

EDIT: My bad, project is moved to https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Syncserver was what OP was asking for, I used it and it was great while it worked. The rust rewrite is almost impossible to self-host, at least as of a year ago there was no easy way to do it on a reasonably sized machine.

[–] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 3 points 7 hours ago

there was no easy way to do it on a reasonably sized machine.

Why? What is the issue?

[–] scott@lem.free.as 1 points 6 hours ago

I run the older iteration of the software. Works well.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 hours ago

Yeah I wish there was a good answer to that. Floccus at least works ok for bookmarks.

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I use the floccus extension with Nextcloud as a backend for bookmarks/tabs and wallabag for read-it-later

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago

Does it sync browsing history?

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 5 hours ago

Have a look at Vivaldi

According to their help page it'll do what you want.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 7 hours ago

The Arch Wiki used to have some elaborate tricks on Firefox profile syncing, and some software to support it, maybe you should check that out (but the actual software FF uses is or used to be FOSS as well).

[–] mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I use xBrowserSync for bookmark syncing. The code hasnt been touched in a few years but it still works great. Set it and forget it. There's also an android app - not sure about ios.

But it doesnt do browser tabs - just bookmarks.

[–] viharm@twit.social 1 points 6 hours ago

@mike_wooskey @ironhydroxide

I use #xBrowserSync too! I self host the server. It has extensions for Firefox & Chromium. Android app, as you said. But no iOS app. I was trying to make a browser based JavaScript app to use on iOS, but couldn’t finish it it.

[–] Selfhoster1728@infosec.pub 1 points 6 hours ago

Librewolf (privacy focused firefox fork) syncing the user folders with Syncthing maybe?