Provide a synchronisation service for your settings and domains

[dpacassi]

I'm thinking about creating a service which allows you to synchronize your settings and your tabs across different browsers or maybe just after a fresh installation of your computer/browser.

This feature should be optional though, I don't want to enforce people of submitting their settings to an external server if they don't want to.

But what do you people think about this idea? Would you use it? Or is it maybe just an overkill?

[3ventic]

Both Firefox and Chrome support synchronizing extension settings via Mozilla/Google accounts very easily, so I'm all for allowing an option for it.

[dpacassi]

@3ventic Thanks for your input! I see your point but I probably would go for a custom backend for the synchronization. If I rely on synchronizing via Mozilla or Google, you won't be able to synchronize between different browsers.

[M-Reimer]

I think it would be a good start to optionally use the sync services provided by browsers. I wouldn't use some "custom backend" as I know that the Mozilla service is end-to-end encrypted and I don't use any browser besides Firefox anyway.

[pabgan]

Lately I just use Syncthing or Yadm to synchronize everything that I need, including apps configurations that do not provide a sync option, or even if they do. Having the configuration located and explained in the help page would be enough for me.

[AlexHeylin]

Personally - I wouldn't bother as Chrome sync'd to Google does this fine.

[merrickville]

Any progress on this idea?

As @pabgan commented before, even where these configurations are stored in your FF profile, rather than backing up the entire profile directory, would be easier to just backup up the js toggle config, and transfer to another instance.