Only way to disable this is to open about:config and change some value. Why this has no dismiss button?
There is couple more settings that are on by default and i hate those; but mostly those are subjective. However who wants 80px long “SIGN IN SO WE STORE YOUR BOOKMARKS, HISTORY IN OUR SERVERS” stuff on their screen?
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Firefox sync is end to end encrypted by the way: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sync
It is technically also self hostable, but I gave up when I was investigating. Hosting the sync server itself wasn’t too bad, but I couldn’t figure out how to also self host the account server, which is also needed to have the sync process entirely based on my own infrastructure.
Second that. I gave up also, and thought that mozilla could’ve made that part easier - if they wanted to.
And I’m still no closer to a hamburger 😮💨
about:config identity.fxaccounts.enabled falseRestart Firefox (if you want to keep your open tabs, make sure:
- Settings
- Home and startup
- Startup, Open previous windows and tabs
is selected).
This way you can disable the whole “give control of your data to a pro-LLM enshitifying CEO” with:
Thank you. Great tip.
tbh I think Firefox Sync is GOATED, but still, there absolutely should be a dismiss button lol
Zen is a great fox based alternative if you want basically a reskinned Firefox.
It’s pretty good yes, but it also has that sign in to sync banner by default.
That’s weird, I’ve never seen it
Sync is E2EE, but also you can sync bookmarks without history or whatever works. I’m always a little confused how people manage using multiple devices without having bookmarks synced across?
Why this has no dismiss button?
i dunno. it should. there’s another one a little deeper in the menus that does have a dismiss ‘X’ and it doesn’t come back after.
