The new Firefox synchronizer
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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