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[–] Fuzzy_Dunlop@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I switched to Libre as well a month or so ago. The only thing I miss from Firefox is eing able share passwords/tabs/etc between mobile and desktop, but it's not enough to make me switch back.

You can use Firefox Sync in Librewolf too, it's just a bit buried in the settings.

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

if you decouple your syncing tools from your browser, you'll be a lot less likely to be locked into a browser you don't like in the future.

[–] mediocreme_ow@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

afaik, you can enable firefox sync in librewolf so you can share all those to firefox on mobile

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Just to add for information's sake, it works the other way around too. As in, you can use Fennec instead of Firefox Android and still sync with standard Firefox on desktop. Or Librewolf or whatever. I think most forks probably use the same sync functionality and servers as vanilla Firefox.

[–] drcabbage@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] EvenOdds@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That looks like a great tool, but only seems to support bookmark sync currently? Not quite a drop in replacement for Firefox sync yet.

[–] drcabbage@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

No, you're right. It only does bookmarks.

[–] mac@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

For passwords bitwarden is basically the given standard