New Firedragon version!

I’m not sure what this is about. Is the “fix” being implemented with ~/.firedragon/firedragon.overrides.cfg? I am asking because of this thread:

The default for Firefox is to use the Mozilla sync servers. Firedragon has always overridden this default (on purpose) in /usr/lib/firedragon/firedragon.cfg to use the sync server at https://ffsync.garudalinux.org:

// allow syncing to our own syncserver
defaultPref("identity.sync.tokenserver.uri", "https://ffsync.garudalinux.org/token/1.0/sync/1.5");

This is intended as a privacy feature, because Mozilla is no longer storing your browsing history, open tabs, bookmarks, settings, and so on in their servers.

Users who are already actively using the Firefox sync servers often stumble over this feature, because they sign in with their normal account but all their stuff does not sync over. Because the Garuda sync server setting has been set in /usr/lib/firedragon/firedragon.cfg, it is sort of “hard-coded” into the browser but can be reverted back to Mozilla servers by passing the override in ~/.firedragon/firedragon.overrides.cfg.

// Use Mozilla sync servers
lockPref("identity.sync.tokenserver.uri", "https://token.services.mozilla.com/1.0/sync/1.5");

This specific configuration is an override of an override.

If you want the new Firedragon browser to use the Mozilla sync servers by default, I wouldn’t add another override–just remove the override which is switching the server in the first place.

But is that really what you want? I think having the custom sync server is an awesome feature.

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