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Sync of critical preferences like search engine, privacy etc don't sync, they change too

OK I have been trying to go 100% Firefox for just a few months but with privacy and security as primary directive. It would be wonderful to just be in ine well moderated … (read more)

OK I have been trying to go 100% Firefox for just a few months but with privacy and security as primary directive. It would be wonderful to just be in ine well moderated browser ecosystem and actually being able to have my preferences, interest and personal information centralized with eventual goal of digitally divorcing tech companies from my personal data. I still have to use a lot of different devies with varying OS and it literally took me two years to help Apple fix an AppleId problem. Now that I have that sorted out I have been hoping to move away from gmail entirely and eventually have my own mailserver but using icloud now for macs and pcs.


At a minimum it seems like even after forced manual I have not properly sync an imac with windows 10 PC. So to keep it simple I stay there but this morning when I typed into Firefox on my iMac its was google search not Duckduckgo. Not only have I synced it in firefox but icloud should be redudant and I had removed google from list of potential search engines. There seems to be some way for a hostile takeover of these settings and google connstant agressive intrusions asking for data is not just wrong or annoying its simply impossible to not have facebook or google track me beyond california digital privacy standards. The worst offender may be youtube. I want to fix the browser and sync my stuff. But I am also looking for extensions that will help me do that better.

I am pretty thorough and now just want to learn more and would like to believe one can have a semblance of privacy but it seems like it will be an adversarial experience when the companies that do can rollback privacy with clever tv ads. The 'providers' clearly do not give hoot about rules, preferences and laws designed to protect people's rights.. That is what is particulary frustrating. It is not a fair fight but a good one. I guess what I am wondering is if there are specific modules you could add to detect maybewhen an event like change in search engine occurs and whether logs may exist as to how or why the change was made. Even if it was an accidental quick through a popup in chromium or edge where I was always being cued to come back to Chrome. Logging out doesnt always seem to work so i tried syncing with and chrome with more or less same results. Very little actual control or at least a tendency to revert back to the data miners preferences over mine. I want to help stop that.

Asked by 0light 2 years ago

Last reply by Melchior blausand 1 year ago

Firefox not allowing me to sign in, stating cookies and local storage not authorized. I have tried everything!

On a legacy iMac with over ten years of Firefox usage, I suddenly cannot sign in. The mac caps out at High Sierra 10.13.6 and I am unable to activate sync. I have tried a… (read more)

On a legacy iMac with over ten years of Firefox usage, I suddenly cannot sign in. The mac caps out at High Sierra 10.13.6 and I am unable to activate sync. I have tried allowing all cookies, restarting the browser several times, and even explored the config files.... to no avail.

How do I "enable local storage"? that's the error that sync provides me, but there is no option to fix that and all of your help files point me to cookies information (which I have done everything with). There are no actual help files to fix the local storage problem. This is frustrating!

Do I have to uninstall the entire application? If so, how to I preserve my bookmarks and pws without also porting over whatever is broken in the application?

Asked by Xander 3 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 3 months ago

Firefox account login page broken on Firefox (but not on Edge)

The page freezes when I try to log in to my Firefox Sync account on Firefox browser: https://i.imgur.com/c7vbWUc.png I can log in to accounts.firefox.com on Edge no prob… (read more)

The page freezes when I try to log in to my Firefox Sync account on Firefox browser: https://i.imgur.com/c7vbWUc.png

I can log in to accounts.firefox.com on Edge no problem, which is how I am posting this.

I've tried reinstalling firefox, refreshing firefox, running firefox in safe/troubleshooting mode, but no luck.

Asked by Tylere Couture 1 month ago

Last reply by cor-el 1 month ago

Lose all my tabs and sites upon reboot

Firefox has always maintained that current tabs will be restored after a reboot of the browser, and indeed that was the case for the first half-dozen years I've been a su… (read more)

Firefox has always maintained that current tabs will be restored after a reboot of the browser, and indeed that was the case for the first half-dozen years I've been a subscriber. That has not been the case for the past 4 - 6 months however. I have the correct Settings for this, so it is not on my end. Why do I always get a fresh Firefox browser whenever I update the version (which is quite regular lately . . . maybe a new version of Firefox every 3 weeks). Please help.

Asked by boersarama 3 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 3 months ago

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Why does Mozilla Support keep showing up under "Connected Services" at accounts.firefox.com?

Just concerned what this is exactly because I noticed it once before and deleted it. Why does it need to be connected to my account? I tried Googling around to see if thi… (read more)

Just concerned what this is exactly because I noticed it once before and deleted it. Why does it need to be connected to my account? I tried Googling around to see if this was normal and I couldn't find anything.

Asked by Ken 1 year ago

Last reply by Ken 1 year ago

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Sync tabs not showing up under the firefox account tab.

when I press my email for the account tab, I dont see my previous tabs from other devices. I have an entire session gone from a pervious computer I'd like to continue. … (read more)

when I press my email for the account tab, I dont see my previous tabs from other devices. I have an entire session gone from a pervious computer I'd like to continue.

Asked by sparkmanace 1 year ago

Last reply by jonzn4SUSE 1 year ago

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lost account information

Hello, i have a problem with my account information. The story is that i reinstall my PC i tried to log in my firefox buy it turns that i forgot my password. So i change… (read more)

Hello, i have a problem with my account information. The story is that i reinstall my PC i tried to log in my firefox buy it turns that i forgot my password. So i change it at 12:31 on 1.11.2022. So at first time i didn't saw anything wrong but when i tried to look into one saved password it turned that i do not have any. But on the are there. Can you fix this because all my bookmarks passwords are there for years i have been with this account and i do not want to loose it.

Asked by atanaspehlivanov 1 year ago

Last reply by Dropa 1 year ago

Sending Tab from Android Mobile to PC Not Functioning

I am having trouble sending tabs from my phone to my PC. My device is connected to my computer, and I can send tabs from my PC to my phone successfully, but not the other… (read more)

I am having trouble sending tabs from my phone to my PC. My device is connected to my computer, and I can send tabs from my PC to my phone successfully, but not the other way around. I have no idea what could even be the issue, and I have only seen people asking about sending tabs from PC to Mobile, not the other way around. Is there something I am missing? None of the Firefox troubleshoot pages have helped.

Asked by maddiewall500 4 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 4 months ago

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SYNC DATA NOT AVAIL

SIR/ MADAM I CHANGE MY OPERATING SYSTEM AFTER THAT I INSTALL FIREFOX AGAIN BUT MY DATA NOT SYNC I USED ALL WAYS BUT I NEED MY LAST DATA PLEASE HELP MY USER ID WORKING G… (read more)

SIR/ MADAM

I CHANGE MY OPERATING SYSTEM AFTER THAT I INSTALL FIREFOX AGAIN BUT MY DATA NOT SYNC I USED ALL WAYS BUT I NEED MY LAST DATA PLEASE HELP MY USER ID WORKING GOOD

Asked by hanishsharma49 1 year ago

Last reply by Paul 1 year ago

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i logged into my firefox account but it doesnt synchronizate

Generally i reinstalled my windows, downloaded firefox, logged in, but i don't have my passwords, addons, history or anything. Even restarting program doesn't work. I wil… (read more)

Generally i reinstalled my windows, downloaded firefox, logged in, but i don't have my passwords, addons, history or anything. Even restarting program doesn't work. I will be grateful for help.

Asked by msydry 1 year ago

Last reply by cor-el 1 year ago

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Log in on different sites

I can't log in on some sites with Firefox. I've tried to use another browser (microsoft edge) and with that browser the problem is gone.. Two sites that won't let me in w… (read more)

I can't log in on some sites with Firefox. I've tried to use another browser (microsoft edge) and with that browser the problem is gone.. Two sites that won't let me in with Firefox is cdbaby.com and walley.se What is the problem with Firefox that I use as my ordinary browser?

Asked by borrje 1 year ago

Last reply by Alex R 1 year ago