Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server

After switching from Firefox to LibreWolf, I became interested in the idea of self-hosting my own Firefox Sync server. Although I had seen this was possible before, I had never really looked into it—until now. I embarked on a journey to set this up, and while it wasn’t completely smooth sailing, I eventually got it working. Here’s how it went. Finding the Right Sync Server# Initial Search: Mozilla’s Sync Server Repo# I started by searching for “firefox sync server github” and quickly found Mozilla’s syncserver repo. This is an all-in-one package designed for self-hosting a Firefox Sync server. It bundles both the tokenserver for authentication and syncstorage for storage, which sounded like exactly what I needed. However, there were two red flags: The repository had “failed” tags in the build history. A warning was prominently displayed stating that the repository was no longer being maintained and pointing to a new project in Rust. Switching to Rust: syncstorage-rs# With that i ... Read full article.