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You mention a lack of hosting but would it, optionally, browser-sync?

I use a web interface, The Old Reader, to access feeds from 4 devices. Whichever I'm using at the time knows which articles have been marked as read; without using a different client for each OS platform.

So a browser extension that syncs to one's Firefox account, like the bookmarks/history feature would be handy, with no additional hosted service other than having a browser login.

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Yeah that's feasible, I haven't experimented with it yet.

Personally, I find that I read very different things on my laptop than I do on my phone (technical articles vs. news) so I haven't had a huge motivation to investigate it, but it's an interesting avenue. The only possible stumbling block is that the size of sync'd data is relatively constrained, about 200k I think, which is probably enough to hold a user's feed list and track whether they've viewed/ignored various articles, but it would require some planning.

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