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Can't any browser do that if you sync the profile folder somehow?
Sure, notionally. I could also write my own browser from scratch and make it to my exact specifications.
I've lived in "cobble together everything I want using a combination of half a dozen browser extensions and bash scripts" land before, and I'm old enough now to realize that maintaining systems like that is almost never worth the time or effort.
It's worth it if that's your hobby, but I have more interesting projects to work on than getting a baseline Chromium or whatever up to a usable state.
So when there's a 95% answer for my use case, it's a hard sell to get me to switch to an 80% solution where I need to jury rig the last 15% to just break even with the out-of-the-box option.
I don't care about my tabs being synced, I just use kdeconnect if I want a link on another device and most of the time I keep their content fairly disjointed. I just happen to know multiple people who did it that way and haven't complained yet.
I do believe LibreWolf lets you use Firefox sync for tabs and history if you want to.
Also I have no idea what your setup is. If you already have a NAS setting up a shared profile could take less time than installing the browser.
You asked for options, then mentioned a problem you had with those offered and I just gave you a solution that works for all of them.
Also doing "15%" (the features a browser offers on top of basic functionality are so much less 10% and I don't need half of them) myself is usually worth it for me in exchange for privacy, a more permanent foss solution, and ethics. Though to be fair I have never needed more than an hour for that for any software other than my text editor. Mostly it's the last "4%" of things I'd like that take longest
I don't actually care about tab sync. I mostly care about this for machines I use as browser based media players, which means I need my history synced.
Main use case is using machine 1 to watch YouTube, then resuming where I left off, via the history menu, on a separate machine.
The Firefox history menu is absolute trash, and there are no extensions to make it behave in a way that's remotely usable.
But my whole use case is not "keeping my content disjointed," which kind of is my point. If my use case was your use case, then sure, your setup is reasonable. But it's not.
And I don't maintain a personal NAS anymore. I realized I just wasn't getting utility out of it, and it was one more thing to get set up again after a move (it wasn't an off the shelf NAS, but a Pi set up with an external storage array.)
Well yes then the things I mentioned indeed likely won't help you.
If you watch on YouTube though, doesn't it keep track of what you were watching in your account? The timestamp isn't ever in my browser history, Is it the frontend you use?
No, YouTube does track that internally. I meant that I don't wan to have to sit down, open up YouTube and search for the thing I was watching again.
This is particularly egregious if you were watching something in a playlist, as YouTube won't suggest a playlist on the front page, just the video you were watching (and that only if you stopped in the middle of an episode, which is rare), so you have to search the channel, click into it, go into playlists, and potentially scroll down a bunch to load them all if there are a lot, just to find the playlist you were watching.
There's also streaming platforms like Dropout that make getting back to where you left off similarly onerous. Because you have to search the show, swap the search to "series", find it in the search results, switch from season 1 to whatever season you're actually on (if you remember), then scroll down to find the episode.
And sure, this is probably only around a minute's worth of work every time, but when it's a daily or more occurrence it becomes frustrating. Especially when the alternative is just having the history page pop up as your launch page and clicking something in the first few options.
Whatever your perception of percentages and ease they don't want to do extra legwork. Glad it's an option for you but they obviously don't care to do it.
Ultimately they are content with their browser and only want to switch if they can maintain equivalent features without the hassles of tweaking it.
I suppose that is just not an expectation I've ever had or fully understood. I've never had a machine that did what I wanted from the start.