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Mozilla says its new Firefox terms don’t give it ownership of your data (www.theverge.com)

submitted 12 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Misunderstanding of legalese may have lead a lot of us down the wrong road.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Alright, seriously considering jumping ship to librewolf now. As someone relying on a Mozilla account to store and sync passwords is it still available in librewolf?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

Sync works, but pay attention to the fact that even if you self host it the authentication is still done on Mozilla's servers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

Not who you're asking, but I'll answer nevertheless.

I've jumped from vanilla Firefox, to Librewolf, and now to Floorp. I've also played a bit with Zen. In all of them (except Zen, which I didn't go to the process of connecting my Mozilla account), my Mozilla account connected and synced just fine.

I also no longer use vanilla Firefox mobile, but moved on to Mull. I am able to sync my stuff from Floorp to Mull and back without much trouble.

EDIT:

Thanks to a couple of people, I was informed that Mull is now unmaintained, and that IronFox took its mantle. I've switched to it just earlier now, and syncing works there too!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Mull is unmaintained. IronFox is the current fork.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Thanks for the head's up. I've switched to IronFox just earlier.

Getting it into my phone wasn't as straightforward as I expected. I first failed to find it on Fdroid. Then I tried toinstall it via Obtanium, but somehow failed. A bit of more research gave me Fdroid repository link that allowed me to finally install it. Everything after that is a breeze though.

Moving my collections from Mull to IronFox had to be be done manually though (or maybe I just didn't find out a better way to do it), but it wasn't at all painful.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Mull is no longer being maintained. IronFox seems to be the go to for mobile now and is what I use. I don't use syncing so I can't say for sure, but it does appear to have a sync setup in its settings.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

Thanks for the head's up! I'll take a look at IronFox and see if it fits my existing set-up (syncing from Linux/Windows PC to mobile). Again, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

I am able to sync my stuff from Floorp to Mull and back without much trouble.

We really need better names for stuff

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

I also bookmarked the Librewolf Flatpak package. I consider to change my browser (Firefox) for the first time in 20 years or so, since its inception. I do not rely on the Mozilla account, so the switch should be easier for me. Passwords should be compatible I assume. In worst case you can export and import passwords.