Syncing Firefox tabs without a Mozilla account

John Hasler

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Jan 22, 2023, 12:10:06 PM1/22/23

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Is there a way to Sync Firefox tabs without a Mozilla account?
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Alex

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Jan 22, 2023, 12:40:06 PM1/22/23

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On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:01:15 -0600
John Hasler <jo...@sugarbit.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to Sync Firefox tabs without a Mozilla account?

I think you may be looking for something like xBrowserSync
https://github.com/xbrowsersync/app

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John Hasler

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Jan 22, 2023, 1:00:04 PM1/22/23

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Alex writes:
> I think you may be looking for something like xBrowserSync
> https://github.com/xbrowsersync/app

Thank you. This appears to only do bookmarks.

Celejar

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Jan 22, 2023, 3:00:06 PM1/22/23

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On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:52:45 -0600
John Hasler <jo...@sugarbit.com> wrote:

> Alex writes:
> > I think you may be looking for something like xBrowserSync
> > https://github.com/xbrowsersync/app
>
> Thank you. This appears to only do bookmarks.

There's this one, although it apparently requires a Google account:

https://github.com/sienori/Tab-Session-Manager

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John Hasler

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Jan 22, 2023, 4:00:05 PM1/22/23

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Celejar writes:
> There's this one, although it apparently requires a Google account:

> https://github.com/sienori/Tab-Session-Manager

No chance of that. Gives me some keywords to search for, though.

Dan Ritter

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Jan 22, 2023, 4:50:05 PM1/22/23

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John Hasler wrote:
> Is there a way to Sync Firefox tabs without a Mozilla account?

Yes, but it requires you to run a Mozilla Sync Server and a
Mozilla Accounts Server.

https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run-fxa.html

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Curt Saltzman

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Jan 23, 2023, 1:30:04 AM1/23/23

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You can right-click on a tab and select bookmark all tabs, which can later be accessed and opened from the bookmarks menu or the library button.

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John Hasler

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Jan 23, 2023, 8:40:06 PM1/23/23

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Very useful. Thank you.

TRS-80

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Feb 4, 2023, 10:20:06 PM2/4/23

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John Hasler <jo...@sugarbit.com> writes:

> Is there a way to Sync Firefox tabs without a Mozilla account?

It's not 'sync' but I use the Add-On called 'Export Tabs URLs'. I like
its ability to customize the link export format, in my case to Orgmode
style.

There are a number of 'tab export' Add-Ons doing variations on the same
theme.

I save them to a file in a directory which is synced across devices
using Syncthing. It's a bit of a manual process, but I don't do it
often enough that it bothers me.

For true 'sync' you may need to run some sort of standalone
(self-hosted) Firefox sync server. I seem to recall reading about such
things, but never investigated further as that was not a need I had.

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John Hasler

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Feb 6, 2023, 12:20:07 PM2/6/23

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Thatnk you. That looks useful.