On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, Verstraete, John wrote:
I appreciate your thoughts on the subject but I tend to disagree,
there are other applications that support more than one service and
giving the capability to choose from several of the most popular
services such as OneDrive, NextCloud and Google Cloud to name a few
and not be limited to only one product. In certain situations such
as mine it would make it easier for users and IT staff to find the
data that is needed when moving from computer to computer all in one
place. All I am asking is it possible to direct Firefox data to
OneDrive and have it available no matter the computer the user is
logged onto.
Even if support for OneDrive, iCloud or whatever were built in to Firefox
*each computer* would have to know your account details on that cloud.
Given that, I don't think it is any harder to install the appropriate
addon or extension *for all users* at the same time.
This does assume that Firefox makes it simple to install the addon or
extension *for all users*. If not, that is where the work should be put.
Whether the cloud support is native to Firefox or an addon/extension
the boot-strap problem remains; how does Firefox know which cloud *account*
to use and importantly, how does it authenticate, in order to read the user
data ...
Edge can cheat, since it would like to assume your Windows login and
your OneDrive are connected to the same account. Similarly Google Chrome
tries to link your browser login to your gmail account.
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, Verstraete, John wrote:
I am looking for a way to sync me Firefox profile with OneDrive, I
know that there is a sync service inside Firefox and can be used in
the same manner as OneDrive but it is company policy we use OneDrive
for these purposes. One of the largest reasons why we want to use this
feature is of course have users retrieve their settings no matter
which pc they logon to but also during pc refreshes it allows for a
faster turnaround when all user data is stored into one cloud service.
I have read articles on add-ons and extensions that can be installed
but this doesnâ??t seem like a good fit, it would be nice to be able
to natively configure Firefox to sync profiles with OneDrive. Has
anyone done this or is it possible, if it is not possible is it in the
works to make it possible?
Given the number of cloud services, until and unless there is a standard
interface (I like Tim BL's idea of user's having control of who can access
which bits of data, implemented in Solid Pods*), I would prefer that Firefox
does not attempt to support all of them natively.
Nor should it show favouritism, so it should support *none* of them natively
(OK I'll accept the Mozilla/Firefox one); addons/extensions *are* the way to go.
* https://solidproject.org/
Solid is a specification that lets people store their data securely in
decentralized data stores called Pods.
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