On Tue, 2022-11-29 at 09:57 -0500, John Mellor wrote: I know about it but I would like to keep my data out of the cloud and only on my own machines.

Andreas Fournier: Jeffrey Walton: Likewise. If I want to duplicate a Firefox install, I can horse around with their export to a file feature, and find that it doesn't include something I want exporting (just trying to backup the bookmarks proved to be a pain), or duplicate the entire .mozilla configuration directory, hoping that it's compatible with the other browser (it should be for a duplication to the same browser on the same OS, or slightly newer browser version). I have a number of things that'd like to put my data on their cloud, and only a few that have a way to locally store things. Naturally, you have to pay for many of those things, and none of them are on the same cloud service, either. I've often wondered if I could play with fake DNS records or IP forwarding tricks, and let them think that they're connecting to their hardcoded addresses for its cloud server when its actually connecting to something of my own choosing. We have an OS that's excellent at running servers. Many of us have a 24/7 running Linux machine as a local server. Using it as a dumb client reliant on WWW servers is a waste. -- NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the list. The following system info data is generated fresh for each post: uname -rsvp Linux 5.19.15-201.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Oct 13 18:58:38 UTC 2022 x86_64

On Tue, 2022-11-29 at 15:41 +0100, Andreas Fournier wrote: If you back up your home directory regularly (e.g. every night), you don't need a separate solution for Firefox (or indeed any other application). I do this as a matter of course and never think about it. poc