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Firefox Mobile Browser Add-On? #409

Open marsipanda opened 2 years ago

marsipanda commented 2 years ago

hiya, so i currently use the xBrowserSync mobile app on my phone bc i have the Firefox add-on, so i can access my desktop bookmarks from my phone without needing to use Firefox Sync. however the opposite doesn't work (syncing my mobile bookmarks to access on my laptop) because the mobile app doesn't interface properly with Firefox for Android, forcing me to use Firefox Sync to manually merge my mobile bookmarks to my laptop so the Firefox add-on can save the changes. This is a little frustrating bc it also means that my mobile bookmarks don't update on their own locally so they're always out of date until i manually overwrite that data myself, and i have to remember to add new bookmarks to xBrowserSync on mobile myself or else i have a real mess on my hands.

would it be possible to create a Firefox Android add-on version of xBrowserSync so it more seamlessly replaces Firefox Sync as a cloud service and is able to automatically mirror my bookmarks on mobile the way the desktop version does? The ability to edit bookmark folder locations on mobile would also be appreciated. i'm also happy to provide more software information in case this is actually something buggy happening on my end!

TrustKibou commented 2 years ago

Here is the only way (that I know of) to handle this problem:

  1. On the page you want to bookmark, open the FF menu and click the Share button
  2. Under 'ALL ACTIONS', there will be an option titled "Add Bookmark" with the xBrowser logo - click it
  3. This will bring you to the xBrowser app (new bookmark page) - click "Add Bookmark" to save it.

The only downside is that it saves the bookmark to the end of your "Other Bookmarks" folder, so you'll have to move it yourself when you log on to a PC.

It may be a tad inconvenient, but it's worth it to have the ability to sync on all your devices, including mobile. :)

feelingwalnut commented 2 years ago

until firefox changes their implementation (unlikely since they wholely endorse this line of thought) the option is to use the sharing feature, sending your link from firefox to the xbrowsersync app.

another option would be to set up and host your own firefox-sync server, use their hidden menu to configure your addresses in the phone and settle for their built-in service. but the code still comes from the "lesser evil" of the only two browser engines (google, mozilla) and if memory serves, is not browser agnostic.

RokeJulianLockhart commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/xbrowsersync/app/issues/126#issuecomment-1676163139