Firefox Sync Feature

Discussions revolve around Firefox Sync's capabilities for syncing bookmarks, passwords, tabs, history, and addons across devices, often praising its privacy, end-to-end encryption, self-hosting options, and comparisons to Chrome and Safari sync.

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I_am_uncreative Jun 13, 2023 View on HN

Firefox has sync, but it's opt-in, not opt out. You have to login.

amelius Jul 9, 2024 View on HN

If I'm not mistaking, Firefox Sync will do that too.

floatboth May 30, 2019 View on HN

Firefox's sync is better, because it's not tied to the Apple ecosystem :P

kennywinker Mar 16, 2021 View on HN

Firefox does that https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/sync/

proce55ing Feb 13, 2021 View on HN

Firefox offers an account (bookmarks, tabs, etc) sync functionality with between the desktop browsers and mobile apps.

amelius Mar 26, 2019 View on HN

Doesn't Firefox "Sync" (a standard feature) already solve this more or less?

e1ven Mar 2, 2012 View on HN

Now that Firefox, Chrome and Safari all sync through various cloud accounts, is that really still an issue?

ranguna Mar 19, 2022 View on HN

If you mean Firefox sync, it does not, due to privacy reasons.

giancarlostoro Mar 26, 2019 View on HN

So whats different from Firefox Sync which already just works for centuries now?

zobzu May 17, 2016 View on HN

firefox uses firefox sync (which predates chrome sync) to sync your bookmarks, passwords, addons, etc. it also syncs with firefox for android and firefox for iOS...