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?
Librewolf my friend
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.
about:config
identity.fxaccounts.enabled
false
Restart Firefox (if you want to keep your open tabs, make sure:
is selected).
This way you can disable the whole "give control of your data to a pro-LLM enshitifying CEO".
tbh I think Firefox Sync is GOATED, but still, there absolutely should be a dismiss button lol
And I’m still no closer to a hamburger 😮💨
Zen is a great fox based alternative if you want basically a reskinned Firefox.
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?
The app has the vpn ad in te settings where the bookmark was before, annoying.
"Why does this have no dismiss button?"
Sorry, pet peeve.
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.
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