Ugh... so, running Debian Jessie on my X60 now. I went to set up "Firefox Sync" with IceWeasel, and fell down this wormhole...

First, under Set Up Sync, rather than the familiar "Pair a new device" screen, I'm prompted with something about setting up a Firefox account
Then, I find that there's a new version of Firefox Sync in v30, and "the latest version of Firefox doesn't support adding new devices to the old version of Sync" (and I was worried that Debian testing wouldn't have up-to-date packages... sigh)
So, I don't want to create a new account. I liked that the old account format meant that Mozilla couldn't access my data even if they wanted to, with the decryption client-side. Plus, I recently noticed thatthere's a Mozilla Sync app for ownCloud. Since FF/IW 30 has locked me out of setting up new devices, well, hey, might as well try to set this up now...
Except... I install the app, and go to "Set Up Sync..." and there's nowhere to enter your own server. So, apparently it (a) doesn't let me even set up an old sync account to my own server anymore, and (b) doesn't offer a way to specify my own server wit the new model?
So I find this: Run your own Sync-1.5 server, which is apparently different than running your own Sync-1.1 server...
And, the new sync service uses Firefox Accounts... and the Sync-1.5 page says you can run your own Firefox Accounts server, but doing so is currently experimental and not well-docmented...

So... frig... I really don't want to set up a Firefox Account with Mozilla. I would really rather use my own Sync service. But it seems like from version 29-30 onwards, at worst they've broken this or dropped support for it, or more likely, it's in same messed up state of limbo where I can't add any new accounts to the old sync but can't set up my own new sync...

(If I'd just set up sync in Debian Jessie before upgrading, I'd be happily living with the old sync!!)

This is really frustrating... I really don't like feeling pressure to sign up for a Firefox Account / Mozilla Sync service... but I'm starting to feel that pressure, because I don't think there's any other easy way to get sync working from this new IceWeasel 30 install... grr...