[Firefox] Support Firefox Sync

[TobiX]

It would be really nice if µBlock would sync its settings (filter subscriptions, custom filters, exceptions, etc.) via Firefox Sync.

(See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23482565/how-do-you-sync-firefox-addon-extension-preferences for how to get this to work)

[Mosrite]

+1

[brwolfgang]

Couldn't find any non-obsolete documentation about how to do it. But surely it's a great idea

[kofalt]

I was going to ask about this feature specifically for custom filters I create.

Despite the obnoxious warning on these docs, I am 90% sure this works:

for each services.sync.prefs.sync.<pref> preference

So I'm pretty sure all the addon has to do is add services.sync.prefs.sync.<pref>: true values.
This seems to agree with @TobiX's link.

[deaffob]

It would be really nice for the sync to work with Chrome Sync also...

[1n5aN1aC]

+1

[renyouguo]

+1

[mikhoul]

• 1000000000000000000000 ;-)

[desbma]

As a workaround, for Firefox on Linux, you can copy uBlock configuration file for example to a Dropbox folder, and then create a symlink to it on the different machines that will share the configuration.
Ie. with:

mv -v {~/.mozilla/firefox/PROFILE_NAME/extension-data/,~/Dropbox/}ublock.sqlite
ln -sv {~/Dropbox/,~/.mozilla/firefox/PROFILE_NAME/extension-data/}ublock.sqlite

[rbuening28]

+1 For Chrome sync as well.

[iAHTOH]

+1 Firefox and Chromium

[hackel]

Now that µBlock supports Firefox Mobile, this has become 10x more important. Especially since rules are a bit more cumbersome to create on mobile, this would be an ideal solution.

[martinrotter]

+1 for Firefox.
Must have feature.

[stevereinhardt]

+1 for Firefox. Would be amazing. I'm having to export and constantly overwrite each instance with the updated whitelists.

[desbma]

FYI, uBlock Origin supports this.

[Gitoffthelawn]

@desbma Does Origin use the native Firefox Sync, or some other method?

[desbma]

Yes it uses Firefox Sync.

That's the reason I made the switch to uBlock Origin.
I was a bit annoyed by all the drama after the fork, and honestly I think @gorhill acted as if he wanted fuel the flame war, so I purposly stayed with uBlock from this repo.

But as of of now, on a technical ground, uBlock seems abandonned, and uBlock Origin has more features, is available and updated on addons.mozilla.org (which means automatic updates), is lighter when you first install it, is meticulously optimised for performance, etc.

So the choice is quite easy :)

[hackel]

uBlock origin only supports a manual sync process. Changes are not synced in real-time across all machines. It's a great start, but still not ideal.