Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server

Note that this setup still relies on Mozilla infrastructure for several surrounding services for auth, email, account metadata, etc.

https://github.com/dan-r/syncstorage-rs-docker/blob/main/app...

It's a good start though and as long as you're OK migrating your account you can plug those in later. Fully self-hosting all the components is just as doable but a little bit more involved. Compared to when I last set it up they seem to have been improving on docs and devex.

https://github.com/mozilla/fxa

https://mozilla.github.io/ecosystem-platform/tutorials/devel...

https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...

Thank you, this is the only thing what slowed me down switching to Librewolf.

Seems that MySQL and Spanner are the only supported DB-Engines by now, but there are efforts to support sqlite and Postgres[1]. I really hope these get merged soon, would make it much easier to backup your whole sync storage contained in one single sqlite file. However, a multiuser instance would probably be better stored via postgres due to better parallel update support.

EDIT: After trying this out: How exactly do I force Firefox (Librewol) using the self-hosted URL? Is there an about:config setting?

1: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/49...

Great timing, with Mozilla's new privacy policy problems the other day

Would be nice if librewolf and WaterFox changed their flow to make it clear that Mozilla's Sync Server is being used, and make it opt in with something like:

To sync please select one of the options below:

[x] Custom Sync Server: ___________

[ ] Mozilla Sync