Alternatives to Firefox Sync for syncing across devices?

[sugan-reden]

Hi, I'd like to propose or perhaps investigate the possibility of integrating synchronization across devices in a way that differs from the current Firefox Sync option.

The idea I had revolves around more or less the same method used by Brave Browser, whereby everything is synced between devices explicitly connected together by the user in a peer-to-peer fashion protected by a 12-word key-phrase (resembling Bitcoin wallets).

This type of protection of privacy, I feel, would go along with the privacy values proned by Zen, with the added benefit of doubling as a convenient sync method that coincidentally strays away from Firefox Sync.

Let me know what you'd think of this!

Also, my apologies if this particular suggestion/topic was already mentioned somewhere else, I didn't find discussions with this particular option in mind, but please correct me if otherwise.

[tdtrumble]

I suggest adding the ability to simply write Zens settings/bookmarks/etc to a user-specified local folder. That would enable tons of options (onedrive, google drive, dropbox, other cloud services, syncthing, etc).

[sugan-reden]

That indeed would be nice! I didn't think that far :o
It feels reminiscent of many apps and packages on Linux that have their configs optionally in the $HOME/.config/ directory.

[YamiYukiSenpai]

Personally, I just want one where it'd be tied to my Nextcloud.

Floccus + syncing extensions, tabs, etc.

[sugan-reden]

Don't personally know about Floccus ^^, but it would be indeed be nice to have syncing extensions and tabs along with this feature :)

[Skaifer]

There is also tab syncing in question. Because there is no Zen mobile client, I guess, it will be hard to implement syncing between desktop and mobile FF based browser lice Fennec, not only tabs but everything in general.