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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 03:01:13 JST mcc

   I have moved my remaining computer from Chrome to Firefox. I am experiencing frustrations. This will be a thread:

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 03:01:12 JST mcc

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     - The single biggest problem I have going from Chrome to Firefox is losing the button for "take me directly to the tab that is currently playing audio". I think I found an addon for this once but I don't think I got it working, now I can't find it again.

     What do you *recommend* for this? In the most ideal world I could either quickly get currently playing audio OR get a short list of tabs that *recently* played sounds ("what just beeped?").

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 03:02:36 JST Rich Felker

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     @mcc Yes you can self host but it's a giant stack of web garbage rather than a self contained thing. You can probably Docker it tho...

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 03:02:37 JST mcc

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     - I have Firefox on several machines, and on each one I have a rigamarole of setting the settings the way I like them, installing a list of addons, etc. I know I can sync these things between machines, but to do so, I must "log in" to "Firefox Sync". I don't want the web browser vendor having my data. I don't trust that. I don't care if they say they encrypted it or whatever.

     Is there a way to "self-host" firefox sync? If so, is it turnkey or will I be custom python scripts or something?

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 03:02:48 JST mcc

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     - I have recently started seeing "sign in with a passkey" options on various websites. I know that BitWarden, a piece of software I like and trust, can now hold Passkeys. However, I intentionally do not install BitWarden on Microsoft OSes, and I really, *really* hate Bluetooth. Do you know off the top of your head, could I keep my passkeys on my Android phone and connect them to my Firefox web browser **without using Bluetooth**? (USB, for example.) I really don't want to turn on Bluetooth ever.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 03:03:37 JST mcc

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     • leo vriska :light2:

     @leo Okay. Can we back up, and are you able to frame what the experience of plugging my web browser into this system would look like from a user perspective?

     I don't… I don't know how to use Docker. I know I'm like effectively admitting to illiteracy here but if you tell me "you run this service on a VPS" I light up and immediately get to installing it but if you tell me "you run this Docker container I get sad and start googling Tutorials.

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     leo vriska :light2: (leo@60228.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 03:03:37 JST leo vriska :light2:

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     @mcc it's a rust application that needs a MySQL db for storage, see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-syncstorage-git for (unofficial) single-user setup instructions
     using it in your browser is just changing a pref to point to it instead of the official server

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     leo vriska :light2: (leo@60228.dev)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Dec-2024 03:03:38 JST leo vriska :light2:

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     @mcc when it was written in python there was an all-in-one docker container but the rust rewrite doesn't have that, it's still open-source with setup documentation though https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs