Hi, I asked for input from a Nextcloud Bookmarks dev in this thread. Hope it is helpful. https://help.nextcloud.com/t/bring-firefox-sync-back/103
I think, as was pointed out before and has lead me to creating floccus, that, while hosting your own firefox sync server is nice and a nextcloud app that does that would be useful to many, we would be, once again, at the mercy of mozilla since we basically replicate infrastructure that they probably perceive not as an API or standard that needs to be maintained, but as a private service that they can change whenever they like. (I know this might be changing, as more people implement sync clients, but I don’t think many will do so.) However, I’m happy they have adopted the WebExtension quasi-standard, as I expect this to be much more stable – even more so, since a lot of extensions depend on it rather than just a few people running their own sync infrastructure. That being said, the landscape for WebExtension support in Firefox still leaves some things to be desired, from my perspective as the developer of floccus: It’s currently impossible to access bookmarks’ tags with a webextension, and Firefox for Android doesn’t offer access to bookmarks at all, which is a major drawback for me. Still, I feel things are improving and we’re getting closer [image: :slight_smile:] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Browser_support_for_JavaScript_APIs On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 7:23 PM Mark Hammond <mhamm...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 2/03/2018 1:26 pm, James Sundquist wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I’m interested in improving Mozilla Firefox support for open source, > > self-hosted solutions that do not require Firefox Sync servers for > > bookmarks, tags, history, and passwords. Here is my question on the > > status of Firefox support for self hosting + how the current 1.5 Sync > > implementation could be improved for the greater community. I’m excited > > to hear your thoughts! > > > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1207473 > > That thread has a link to our docs for self-hosting a sync server, which > seems to be what you are asking for. > > You also say in that thread that "I know the self-hosted community is > not satisfied with the current implementation of Sync 1.5 Afaik.", but > that's not our experience - we can certainly do a better job on > documentation, but we really need feedback on the areas that need help > and try to be responsive when we notice things that can be improved. We > also try to act on bug reports and pull requests in a timely manner. > > In that vein, we are happy discuss how things could be improved for the > greater community - what did you have in mind? > > Cheers, > > Mark >
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