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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Yes. I sync everything but passwords and bookmarks.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Nah, I dont use it. In fact, I go through and disable almost all the "extra" stuff in any browser I install. I'm of the "Do one thing well" school of thought, so all these apps trying to do everything, all at once, just to keep you in "their" system? No thanks. Sync offers absolutely zero features that don't have better, alternative options already.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Yes. I want to have access to both history and bookmarks on all my devices and send specific tabs to other devices. Sync makes these super convenient.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Yes, but only on new installs to get all my extensions and settings. Then I disable it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

mostly just to send websites I find while on mobile to my PC so I can properly read/interact with them on my PC

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I do the same, just with xdg-open via ssh

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but it doesn’t synchronize all like the values in the about:config.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

No, I use my devices for different purposes and I don't have any interest in them communicating

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No, I don't need yet another account, nor do I have a need to sync anything.

I don't really use bookmarks, and haven't found much value in sharing anything between my devices. I just install ublock on new devices and that's about it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Yes, because it helps me organize my horde of bookmarks that I need to sort and keep on task with my projects.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I sync bookmarks between devices and sometimes send a tab from one device to another.

EDIT: I trust Mozilla way more than Google.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I wouldn't have it any other way. I need to have my desktop and phone browsers synced.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I use it for open tabs only. I then monthly bookmark all of them on a desktop. Then I close all the tabs on my phone and start again.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

I use it for preferences and bookmarks and stuff. But I never save passwords in any browser, I have my password manager for that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No. I tried it once and lost half my tabs and bookmarks. I assume because they were different on each device I synced. One overwrote the other. Maybe if I had brought an in-use device into a new browser installation it would have worked as intended. But I don't trust it won't lose things now. All my devices have their own set of things to sync.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Yes, I trust the encryption layer and the Mozilla Foundation has good ethical principles. I'm also a big fan of Firefox Relay (email alias provider) to protect my inbox from spam.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

using it, syncing my bookmarks with it between systems (work, home, laptop, phone, tablet)

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Yep. It's e2e encrypted, and you can even self-host the sync server, if you don't want to rely on an external service. Pretty much a no-brainer.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Yes. Because I have too many devices. Firefox sync is easy except that I have to reconfigure settings for each add-on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I'm pretty sure I've seen some FF addons have an option to sync their setting via FF Sync.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does Chrome sync addon data? I am getting a bit annoyed by the fact that Firefox does not, but actually I don't remember if Chrome ever did this.

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