I'm currently using Firefox with a self-hosted sync server, and since I have to use Chrome on a Chromebook (because Firefox for Android's UI is terrible for tablet/laptop mode), I use Floccus to sync there. I've been using this setup for years and it works great. (And no, I don't want to run Firefox for Linux on the Chromebook, it doesn't work well.)

However, I'd like to switch to a standard browser that has a tab-based UI on Android tablets (vs Firefox's click the box, then choose a tab from the list method). I'm looking for a browser that is Open Source (sorry Vivaldi) that I can use in Linux and on Android with a UI that's good in tablet/desktop mode. It must support some form of self-hosted sync, preferably for settings/themes/etc in the browser.

Does anyone know of anything? As far as I know, nothing exists short of Chromium with no settings sync and something like Floccus. I've built sync extensions before, so I'm tempted to look at Chromium source and see if I can modify it to sync to another API interface.

Thanks.

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[–] emhl@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Braves Sync server can be Selfhosted. On the desktop client you'll need to start it with the --sync-url option. But idk how to specify it for the android version (without patching the source) https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/12314

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for this. I need to read more on Brave (the whole crypto thing is.. Odd). Perhaps it would be easier to implement the self-hosted URL in mobile there than the method I was considering.