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Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server

After switching from Firefox to LibreWolf, I became interested in the idea of self-hosting my own Firefox Sync server. Although I had seen this was possible before, I had never really looked into it—until now. I embarked on a journey to set this up, and while it wasn’t completely smooth sailing, I eventually got it working. Here’s how it went.
Finding the Right Sync Server Initial Search: Mozilla’s Sync Server Repo I started by searching for “firefox sync server github” and quickly found Mozilla’s syncserver repo.

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