Carl

A welcome screen explaining how HTTP requests are made for the adblock filters and the app auto updater is now released with version `101.0.4951.39`.

> Why does the Welcome screen say that Ad block filters can't be disabled? in fact, they can be disabled. The automatic download of new filters cannot be disabled. >...

@legendavey this basically would add support for a cloud service (Firefox Sync), which is not federated. This is directly against the idea behind Bromite, which is to not use any...

@Bluscream a patch as needed for this issue would not be enabled by default, regardless.

@x11x sounds good, if it is really viable. Bromite is not going to partner with any cloud services for obvious reasons. I also thought of some solution using WebDAV, but...

> this could draw hundreds of hours of development away for what is at best a user comfort feature, and if poorly implemented will in fact be an anti-feature. I...

Re-opening this feature request to see if it viable to add support for at least part of it.

That's very interesting!

> * We either use sync code from brave and sync server from brave and hope bromite can continue to use brave patches OR > * We use the pristine...

> But, the caveat for us now is that, Bromite, being a chromium based browser, will find it hard to sync with firefox(not sure). There is no sync with Firefox...