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**url: `https://ffsync.envs.net/`**
do you use firefox on multiple devices for browsing? then you can use firefox Sync to synchronize your browser data (bookmarks, open tabs, search history, etc.) between all your devices.
for this you first need a firefox account.
## client configuration
if you are logged into firefox with your firefox account, log out!
### desktop
to configure desktop firefox to talk to our sync server, go to `about:config`, search for `identity.sync.tokenserver.uri` and change its value to be the url of our server with a path of `token/1.0/sync/1.5`:
to configure desktop firefox to talk to our sync server, go to [`about:config`](about:config), search for `identity.sync.tokenserver.uri` and change its value to be the url of our server with a path of `token/1.0/sync/1.5`:
`identity.sync.tokenserver.uri: https://ffsync.envs.net/token/1.0/sync/1.5`
after the new sync server is stored, restart Firefox (i.e. close it and open it again).
after the new sync server is stored, restart firefox (i.e. close it and open it again).
you can now log in your firefox account again.
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**important:** after creating the android account, changes to "identity.sync.tokenserver.uri" will be ignored. (if you need to change the uri, delete the android account using the "Settings > Sync > Disconnect…" menu item, update the pref, and sign in again.) non-default tokenserver url's are displayed in the "Settings > Sync" panel in firefox for android, so you should be able to verify your url there.
prior to firefox 44, a custom add-on was needed to configure firefox for android. for firefox 43 and earlier, see the blog post [how to connect firefox for android to self-hosted firefox account and firefox sync servers](http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/2014/07/05/how-to-connect-firefox-for-android-to-self-hosted-services/).
## links
- [firefox sync](https://www.mozilla.org/de/firefox/accounts/)
- [source](https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver)