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I found bug 859889 on Bugzilla, I would like to develop a patch for it. In my software development class, my professor asked us to get the permission of a leading developer for our project proposal. If you can direct me to such a developer, that would be great. The dev in question should also have access to Firefox Android's code base, as to apply the patch if completed and accepted.

The url to the bugzilla page is "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=859889".

Hi,

I'm using Firefox 18.0.2 on my several PC's and synch works fine between them. But on my Smasung Note 2 (Android 4.1.2) Firefox could never synched bookmarks from PC. However opened tabs seems to be synchronized from PC to my mobile phone. But none of mbookmay PC rks seems on my Phone. I got no error message after synch operation on my android phone. But no bookmarks synchronized.

All options including Bookmarks selected under what to synch menu. I also tried only to select bookmarks, but helped.

I'm waiting this feature to work during a few months, through different firefox PC and android releases, now as a final hope I'm contacting with you.

My synch usename is buyukbang@gmail.com and I'm using default Firefox server.

I'm sure there is a bug blocking my bookmarks to be synched to my Android Phone , I really want to help Firefox devs to fix these bug.

Regards....

So my hard drive died. I cannot get to the files (at all). I synced my Mozilla bookmarks with my phone and can still view my desktop bookmarks. Anyway that I can re-sync them, or email them from my phone to my computer?

Thanks, CW

Initially staring Firefox 16 takes a long time. There is no evidence that anything is happening (CPU, disk, or task manager programs) for 15-30 seconds before the program finally loads. Once it is running, performance is normal. Other browsers and programs launch immediately, with no delay.

I have tried starting in Safe mode, using a new user profile, clearing and deleting the cache, running CCleaner, resetting Firefox, and reinstalling from scratch. Add-ons and extensions don't seem to be the cause of the delay. It is interesting that the delay also exists while loading the profile manager (15-30 seconds before it opens), and also before the confirmation dialog to start in Safe mode.

I am only using Windows Defender. The problem still exists when I disable real-time protection.

I would appreciate any help getting Firefox running up to its full potential!

I have a new laptop and numerous bookmarks I want to retreive from my desktop, I set up an account and paired the device both ways and its says synced but my laptop isn't showing the bookmarks or anything. Do you get the code from the old device and enter in the new device correct? again I did both ways because it didn't work so not sure what to do

I've had to replace my C:\ and want to pull my Bookmarks from Sync. I presume that using Sync, actually stores my Bookmarks etc. in the cloud somewhere, so how do I go about pulling them back down out of the cloud to sync with my "new" computer?

I've also upgraded the OS from Win XP to Win 7

Thanks for your time.

I created a sync account on my old laptop 3 weeks ago. I got a new laptop this week and I'm trying to get all of my old bookmarks and passwords. I am trying to sync the new laptop, but it isn't pulling in anything from the old account. I don't have a recovery key. Is there anything I can do?

Thanks!

I set up Sync on a Linux Mint os. I had to go back to Windows 7 os. Once I set up Firefox on the new os, I tried to recover the data from Sync, but I couldn't access it. I have my Recovery Key.

Opening the "Add-ons Manager" shows a message "You don't have any add-ons of this type installed" despite the fact I have many add-ons installed. In fact, I can still use add-ons just fine, they just don't show up in the manager. So, I can't access preferences for most of my add-ons.

I had this problem once before and was able to solve it through extensive Google searching. However, when I fixed the problem before, I had to re-add all of my add-ons to the browser window as it was reset to the default in fixing it. My issue isn't so much how to fix it like I did before, but rather—since it seems to have been only a temporary fix—figure out how to prevent it from happening again. See, I really don't want to have to do what I did before as it is time consuming. Especially, if it's going to happen again. Like, I don't want to have to reset and re-organize Firefox every couple of months.

The solution I used before, if I recall correctly, was deleting some preference files, re-opening Firefox, and then putting everything back the way it was. Restarting Firefox in safe mode did nothing and restarting my computer did nothing. I can't remember if I updated Firefox after noticing the problem the first time; I don't think I did, so I'm not sure if it would've fixed the problem or not (or if updating caused it because I had recently updated Firefox prior to noticing the problem).

One more piece of info is that the first time this happened to me was Firefox 14 or 14.1 (or .0.1 maybe).

I had to format my HDD and reinstall everything. Previously I had set up Firefox Sync so I could retrieve all my bookmarks and whatnot. When I put in the 3 part code to retrieve said data, it gives me an error saying "Please try again." No error code or explanation, just that. Originally, the servers were having issues so I decided that was the issue. But now that the servers are in normal condition, it still gives me the same error.

I have been using yahoo mail on firefox for years, but now I can't reply to an email. Every time I try to reply to a message I get this:

Yahoo! Mail found the original email, but encountered problems displaying it. Please try again later.

I have switched browsers, and both explorer and chrome work fine. So, I will be switching permanently to Chrome if this cannot be fixed soon. I really like Firefox, but if I can't reply to an email, what good is it to use Firefox when I can reply fine on other browsers?

The reason for not working of firefox sync was: like show, I had toe install fire on both devices first. Then. When I wanted to sync. I got two diffent codes on both the machine. So how could I fill in de code for sync on both my phone and pc when they were allready filled in. No I get the answere that Ik cant use sync no more for reasons Im not quillty ot doing? Neither did I change the key. I never even knew I had one. Better to use chrome? Perhaps?

I had to reinstall windows, but before doing it i specifically checked if i was logged in with my firefox account and if sync options was on. after i reinstalled latest version of firefox and loged in, nothing happened! im logged in but there is nothing of my data!

Hello,

I'm just trying to keep on top of my electronic security.

I would like to be able to see a list of all the devices that are authorized to synchronize with the Firefox Sync. I want to make sure that no other devices have been set up to sync that I am unaware of. While I understand the process of adding a device is relatively secure, it does not prevent someone with local access to a machine to set up a device I do not know of in my absence. I don't anticipate this has occurred, but would like to check to be sure.

Does such a feature exist? either how many devices are authorized, or what date devices were added, or by a history according to IP address of successfully authorized synching operations?

If such a feature does not exist, it would be simple to implement it and I would greatly encourage a feature to be made available.

Thanks, Brian

Was not able to retrieve all my passwords, bookmarks, add-on and others. When it was retrieving, I mistakenly pressed on the "sync now". How can I retrieve all those things?

I am setting up syncing between a few computers and I am wondering if syncing passwords is safe.

It is my understanding that when syncing passwords, they are first decrypted using the master password, then encrypted using the Sync key and sent on the server. After retrieving them on another device they are decrypted using the Sync key and then encrypted using the master password of that device. So they are not saved in clear text anywhere and it would appear that they are safe against someone getting access to any of my devices or to the sync server.

However, I see one possible way of getting the passwords. Let's suppose someone gets access to one of my devices. Then, they can go to the Sync tab in the Options and click on Pair a device. Using a device of their own, without a master password (or with their own), they get device syncing code and enter it on my device. Then, on their device, they have access to my passwords.

Am I right? Is such a thing possible? Wouldn't it be better to use the same master password on all devices to make such an attack impossible?

Thank you for your help!

Stéphane

The first time I setup sync I selected to only sync my bookmarks - nothing else, but immediately it is listing my desktop tabs on my Android phone under "synced tabs".

I really want only bookmarks to pass to my mobile and no other data browser data. How can I ensure that?

Thx

When I got my laptop a month a few weeks ago I successfully synced it with my desktop. Since I have updated my desktop bookmarks. I am going on vacation and tried to update my sync so my laptop has all my new bookmarks from my desktop. It wasn't working so I tried via my desktop and now i just synced with my laptop and my desktop has all my old book marks. I need to recoup my bookmarks from 4/9/13. Can you please help!!!