geckoview
syncstorage-rs
| geckoview | syncstorage-rs | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 21 | |
| 390 | 794 | |
| 3.1% | 6.9% | |
| 9.1 | 7.5 | |
| 5 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| HTML | Rust | |
| - | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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geckoview
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Mozilla needs to provide an alternative to Electron
Warning, I don't really know what I am talking about on this subject. But that said! I believe the replacement is GeckoView
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Why Firefox Is Seeing a Continuous Decline for Last 12 Years
I stand by what I said - their code is a convulated mess by design. It's 25 years and they still haven't modularised their code that anyone can use the Gecko engine on the desktop and creating competing browsers. All anyone can do is create a clone of Firefox, which ofcourse, cannot really compete with Firefox or other desktop browser as it will still have all the flaws of Firefox. And this is what Mozilla wants.
They may have started with altruistic reasons, but after tasting Google's money, their greed corrupted them.
Mobile is a good example. Mozilla realised it was in a precarious position on the mobile platform, which is dominated by Chrome, Opera and Safari. And so they have now been forced to release the Gecko rendering engine for mobile ( https://github.com/mozilla/geckoview ) and are encouraging others to create mobile browsers, in the hopes that this may provide a fillip to Mobile Firefox. Desperation drove them to this move as the money is now in mobile platform (Google paying 15 billion dollars to Apple / Safari highlights this).
If they can do this for the mobile platform, why can't they do it for the Desktop platform too?
This kind of deliberate convulated code mess is like a "dark pattern" where in you know the developer isn't really interested in supporting the open source movement. Yes, there are many other open source projects that have poor code or lack documentation, but unlike the Firefox project, none of them has 100's of millions of dollars at their disposal - it's a travesty how they have wasted all that money!
syncstorage-rs
- Host your own Firefox Sync Server
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Firefox Keeps Getting Faster
Including self-hosting the sync server, if preferred: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs
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Mozilla Synstorage in a Qnap Conatiner
Has anyone tried to run https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs.git in a ContainerStation container and get me some pointers what to watch out for?
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Can Chrome Sync or Firefox Sync be trusted with sensitive data?
> The alternative is https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs which is ridiculously hard to set up.
https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/49...
This is the issue to watch, supporting SQLite. This makes it feasible to run a simple sync server for a single user or a small group. But this is not moving forward.
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Firefox Sync on Raspberry Pi ? / Dead project??
It was re-written in Rust and is now called syncstorage-rs.
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Best browser to use in 2023 - Firefox vs Chrome vs ???
You can even host the (Firefox sync service)[https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs] yourself, if you'd rather not sync your data to Mozilla's servers.
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Ask HN: Is anyone successfully self-hosting Firefox Sync?
Any issues to be aware of?
[1]: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/681
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Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
Looks like you can with some extra steps https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs
- Euer Browser für 2023?
- Running one's own synchronisation service
What are some alternatives?
harfbuzz - HarfBuzz text shaping engine
Firefox Sync Server - Run-Your-Own Firefox Sync Server
caniuse - Raw browser/feature support data from caniuse.com
Firefox Account Server - Monorepo for Firefox Accounts
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
application-services - Firefox Application Services
settings
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
autopush-rs - Push Server in Rust
bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!
rust - Rust for the xtensa architecture. Built in targets for the ESP32 and ESP8266
fxa-selfhosting - Selfhosting your own Firefox Accounts (FxA)!