And that is why I use Firefox sync, and I work on hosting my own sync node on a VPS. None of my co-workers understand the utility boost in seeing, all from a server-side encrypted store:
- Passwords
- Bookmarks
- History
- Open tabs on other devices
- Extensions
- The list goes on
You can say the other things about Chrome and Chromium (as of recently, even the encryption part) but I do not see the docs, the code, and infrastructure published and public like Mozilla has done. Hell, someone even built in a sync mechanism in PHP to ownCloud, to make it more useful.
It is efforts like this that make me, despite other warts, a militant Firefox user. The software is ok, but an institution that pushes standards and worries about my privacy, the whole shebang, is really worth it to me.
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And that is why I use Firefox sync, and I work on hosting my own sync node on a VPS. None of my co-workers understand the utility boost in seeing, all from a server-side encrypted store:
- Passwords - Bookmarks - History - Open tabs on other devices - Extensions - The list goes on
You can say the other things about Chrome and Chromium (as of recently, even the encryption part) but I do not see the docs, the code, and infrastructure published and public like Mozilla has done. Hell, someone even built in a sync mechanism in PHP to ownCloud, to make it more useful.
It is efforts like this that make me, despite other warts, a militant Firefox user. The software is ok, but an institution that pushes standards and worries about my privacy, the whole shebang, is really worth it to me.