MidniteMikeWritesMar 14, 2025
I don't want to wholesale abandon the #firefox ecosystem, and I'm using #zenbrowser. It's everything I ever wanted and more. But I'm wondering if I can get a self-hosted Firefox sync server working with it or if custom implementations of this project have mostly been abandoned. #homelab #firefox_sync #browser
 Hacker NewsMar 1, 2025
Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server
https://blog.diego.dev/posts/firefox-sync-server/
#ycombinator #Firefox_Sync #Self_hosting #LibreWolf #Firefox #Syncstorage_rs #MariaDB #Reverse_Proxy #Caddy #Server_Management #Database #Docker #Open_Source
Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server

After switching from Firefox to LibreWolf, I became interested in the idea of self-hosting my own Firefox Sync server. Although I had seen this was possible before, I had never really looked into it—until now. I embarked on a journey to set this up, and while it wasn’t completely smooth sailing, I eventually got it working. Here’s how it went. Finding the Right Sync Server Initial Search: Mozilla’s Sync Server Repo I started by searching for “firefox sync server github” and quickly found Mozilla’s syncserver repo.