I don't, i very occasioanly use Chrome and have zero interest in having my boomarks there.
Which doesn't answer your questuon :)
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I use degooglechrome (flatpak - Fedora) for the moronic sites that are too encumbered with trackers and other shite to ever load on Firefox. In the UK that would be the National Lottery website as an example. If it loads for you, you're not as privacy conscious as you think.
To me, using Firefox would suggest that you don't use Chrome for more than the odd few sites because you specifically use Firefox for privacy. That's because Chrome goes out of its way to remove privacy eg. frustrating uBlock Origin.
I don't sync bookmarks because I don't want Google to have them too easily. I'm sure they have them but I didn't offer them up knowingly.
I'm bound to ask: why do you use Firefox? Unless you're a dev that has to cover all browsers.
Vivaldi use it's own sync server since ever, Google don't permit Google sync for other browser than Chrome itself, it's a degoogled Chromium and no really need of extensions, due to inbuild blocker and other tools, even Dark Mode for websites and Page Filters. It has less relations with Google than Mozilla, where your account data is shared with Alphabet (a no-go for me). But yes, it's the only Chromium usable related to privacy. Vivaldi's business modell isn't based on ads or third party investors, It is the only EU Browser, apart the KDE Konqueror, on eye level to the US (Chinese) hegemony of big Companies (my Main reason to use it)
I use Vivaldi sync e2ee (Bookmarks, Passwords, Apps, Extensions, Notes, Reader lists, Tabs, Auto complete, History) and Zen Browser as second, without account and sync, because Mozilla has turned into an advertising company, instead importing datas from Vivaldi.
Someone forked Mull and is still maintaining it: https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
Obviously it's early days so we'll have to see if this is a sustainable alternative.
It does not import directly, but you can export and then import on mobile.
Thanks I didn't know this otherwise I wouldn't have made this post. Because it doesn't use a browser extension it was my first choice and what i decided to go with.
A key here is to use Floccus on one machine running Chrome and Firefox, and the normal sync on all other browsers. This simplifies things a lot. I use a Webbian instance on my server for it.
First time hearing Mull isn't being developed. Are there good alternatives?
It is fairly recent, as the solo dev of DivestOS and its applications (including Mull and Mulch) stopped development. I moved to Fennec for now.
Whole point of using different browsers for me is keeping things seperate. I don't sign into anything on Chrome, and all I use it for is ...
Anyways, I wish I could just have multiple installs of a browser I almost trust, but keep the various categories of cookies and logins seperate from one another.
Have you tried firefox containers? It's a bit clunky but it should do just that
I mean, I'm aware of the near-infinite ways to accomplish what I've described on PC or Mac. Android or iOS are the environments I've not found a convenient way around the limitations, and sadly where I do most of my content-consumption.
You can have multiple firefox profiles with different configurations and cookies run:
firefox -p
As I mentioned previously, I am aware of the options on PC.
mb, i didn't read the post description
I host a Linkwarden instance on my NAS and keep everything in there.
Raindrop.io. I use the Firefox extension on desktop and the android app. Bookmarks are in the app, not actually in the browser, but it's simple and it works. It also makes bookmarks easier to search.
xBrowserSync
Do you need them imported into browser? There's not much downside to having them just in a bookmarks app independent of the browser, and the upside is you can freely switch browsers.
I just run a shaarli instance on an old laptop and keep all my bookmarks there and just access it from where/whatever.