You can host a Firefox sync server yourself. You could run that on something like a Raspberry Pi in your local network. If you need remote access, use something like cloudflare tunnels (although I guess that's something else to be paranoid about).
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It's quite difficult to get it running. The latest version is impossible.
I wrote some documentation and a docker compose to make it a bit easier:
Thank you for doing this
Personally, I consider Firefox Sync safe, as your data is end-to-end-encrypted.
If you want an alternative, xBrowserSync exists. Or you can self-host a Firefox Sync server, although this is relatively tricky.
In principle, it is possible to synchronize by just copying files, but with some pretty big caveats:
- Will not work for Android or iOS.
- Firefox won't like it, if it's running and you swap out the files underneath it.
- Bookmarks, browsing and download history are all stored in the same file (
places.sqlite
). So, without writing some custom software, you can't sync only the bookmarks. And naively copying the history to other devices will cause you to lose the history on those devices.