Give and Take
The Firefox Sync Server from Mozilla lets users keep bookmarks, open tabs, and saved passwords synchronized across several browsers. It is fairly straightforward to use the sync server with the Rasp Pi.
The new Firefox synchronizer
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Shortly after we wrote about the Raspberry Pi Sync Server in issue 6 [1] of this magazine published in 2014, Mozilla changed the entire architecture for its synchronizer in favor of significantly better operability on the client side. In this article, I discuss how to install the transformed Mozilla server on the Raspberry Pi and how to coax Firefox, including the mobile version, into a working relationship with the nano-computer.
Previously, Firefox had no built-in synchronization for bookmarks. At some point, add-ons were introduced to retrofit this feature. In many of these add-on solutions, the links ended up in the cloud, whereas in other solutions, file servers were utilized as storage locations.
Add-on-based solutions became superfluous when the sync feature was implemented in Firefox. The configuration became a part of the standard settings, and the data was sent in encrypted form to a Mozilla server. At the server end, this was a lean solution; at the user end, however, it was more complicated.
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