Sync more advanced settings in Firefox (connection settings, Proxy and so on)
Hey y'all, does anyone know a possibility to sync deeper, more advanced settings via the Firefox account? For example I'm using network.proxy.autoconfig_url, which is not… (read more)
Hey y'all,
does anyone know a possibility to sync deeper, more advanced settings via the Firefox account? For example I'm using network.proxy.autoconfig_url, which is not synced to other machines. I already tried the services.sync.prefs.dangerously_allow_arbitrary setting, but it still won't sync.
Thanks in advance! Juergen
Firefox
I do not want sync devices, lost all my passwords, i donot want to create an account how do i stop you from updating what does not need updateds
all of sudden my passwords have disappeared.....i do not want to be part of a community, I just need a browser that works without wanting to be the new microsoft or googl… (read more)
all of sudden my passwords have disappeared.....i do not want to be part of a community, I just need a browser that works without wanting to be the new microsoft or google......give me the old microsoft I used to love
remove all synced data
I believe that Firefox synced my data as a default before I had a chance to reset my sync preferences. Why is syncing the default? Anyway... is there some way that I can … (read more)
I believe that Firefox synced my data as a default before I had a chance to reset my sync preferences. Why is syncing the default? Anyway... is there some way that I can get all my synced data removed from the cloud - or from wherever it is? Thanks.
v71 appears to have eliminated the local disconnect/device clear feature
Usually when I disconnect a two (2) checkbox 'Disconnect Sync' box appears, which after checking removes bookmarks etc from browser. V71 is not doing this and leaves my … (read more)
Usually when I disconnect a two (2) checkbox 'Disconnect Sync' box appears, which after checking removes bookmarks etc from browser. V71 is not doing this and leaves my personal info in the browser I log in to.
I have a Desktop, Hybrid Laptop, and a Google Smartphone. If I sync the bookmarks, which device takes precendence?
My Desktop has bookmarks going all the way back to Netscape 1.0 (1995), my LapPad bookmarks go back just a few years. I would like to be able to decide which takes preced… (read more)
My Desktop has bookmarks going all the way back to Netscape 1.0 (1995), my LapPad bookmarks go back just a few years. I would like to be able to decide which takes precedence like the Contacts merge in Gmail.
I have been a database user/programmer/coder for the last 50 years, and I know the grief you can run into if update does not go as planned. I could wind up with 1995 data overwriting 2019 data.
Please help or point me to where I can find answers?
i can't restore data or sync and i lost my bookmarks and logins and ... what can i do?
Signed in to my account but my information will not be restored. What should I do?
Why does Sync prompt me to install "on another device" when this is the fourth or fifth active device I've logged into the account with?
Over the past few days, I've logged into Firefox on a few new devices - mainly, a Windows partition on my computer, and on a school computer. In both instances, after log… (read more)
Over the past few days, I've logged into Firefox on a few new devices - mainly, a Windows partition on my computer, and on a school computer.
In both instances, after logging in, it doesn't give me any indication of being finished - instead it prompts me to "install on another device". Most recently, on this computer, it asked me to send an SMS to my phone to login to Firefox Sync on my phone.
This would be reasonable, except for the fact that I'm already using Firefox on my phone, and have it actively logged in with the account I'm logging in to. When I go to look at my devices on accounts.firefox.com, I have 6 devices listed, including my phone "last seen 7 hours ago" and my main computer "last seen 3 hours ago". It's clear to me that these are active devices, and that I don't need to install on any other devices to get sync working.
The main reason this is annoying is that I don't get any confirmation that I've completed logging in - only a prompt to do something unnecessary. I can work around this by simply ignoring the prompt, but I'm concerned for other less tech-savvy consumers who might be confused, thinking they're still not done when they login to Sync on their second device! Imagine someone logs into their phone first, and then the computer - it'd be pretty confusing to then have the computer ask them to sign in on the phone.
I personally was slightly confused, and had to double check that bookmarks were actually syncing and that I hadn't accidentally made a new account or done something to erase my previously logged-in devices...
How do I tell Firefox Sync to: Use *this* as my master copy - and propagate it to all my Windows desktop machines?
HI. I understand how difficult Sync is and have read the deep dive article on how it is being (or has been) rebuilt to work "properly". I have just one question - but her… (read more)
HI. I understand how difficult Sync is and have read the deep dive article on how it is being (or has been) rebuilt to work "properly". I have just one question - but here's why: Sync still has the ability to mess up bookmarks between my 5 Windows machines. So all I want is a clear way to do this: I'd like to fix up all my bookmarks on one machine : let's call it "A" - and then propagate that to all the others. I tried doing this by A. Stopping sync on all, B. Fixing up the duplicates, empty folders and other messed up things in bookmarks on A manually C. Starting Sync again. And within a day my 5 hour marathon had been completely wasted as they were in a heck of a mess again. Could someone please try and include "A straightforward way to reset and rebuild your bookmarks- AND SYNC THEM!" in the design doc? And put that a set of clear instructions somewhere? But in the meantime - please let me know how I do this. Surely "reset and rebuild from here" is an obvious requirement? Thanks guys - this hurts because I'm completely in love with the "new" Firefox and how safe I feel with it. So help me here!
My bookmarks are getting scrambled
Hi, for some reason, my bookmarks are getting all mixed up. I used to have them in an easy to follow order and now they are all scrambled and some bookmarks are not show … (read more)
Hi, for some reason, my bookmarks are getting all mixed up. I used to have them in an easy to follow order and now they are all scrambled and some bookmarks are not show where they are supposed to show.
Here are my error codes if they are of any help: 1575661161801 Sync.Service INFO Loading Weave 1.73.0 1575661161801 Sync.Engine.Clients DEBUG Engine constructed 1575661161802 Sync.Engine.Clients DEBUG Resetting clients last sync time 1575661161803 Sync.Engine.Addons DEBUG Engine constructed 1575661161807 Sync.Engine.Addons DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: addons 1575661161809 Sync.Engine.Forms DEBUG Engine constructed 1575661161811 Sync.Engine.Forms DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: forms 1575661161812 Sync.Engine.History DEBUG Engine constructed 1575661161814 Sync.Engine.History DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: history 1575661161815 Sync.Engine.Passwords DEBUG Engine constructed 1575661161817 Sync.Engine.Passwords DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: passwords 1575661161818 Sync.Engine.Prefs DEBUG Engine constructed 1575661161820 Sync.Engine.Prefs DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: prefs 1575661161821 Sync.Engine.Tabs DEBUG Engine constructed 1575661161823 Sync.Engine.Tabs DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: tabs 1575661161823 Sync.Engine.Tabs DEBUG Resetting tabs last sync time 1575661161824 Sync.Engine.Extension-Storage DEBUG Engine constructed 1575661161826 Sync.Engine.Extension-Storage DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: extension-storage 1575661161827 Sync.Engine.Bookmarks DEBUG Engine constructed 1575661161829 Sync.Engine.Bookmarks DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: bookmarks 1575661161829 Sync.Service INFO Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0 1575661161830 Sync.AddonsReconciler INFO Registering as Add-on Manager listener. 1575661161830 Sync.AddonsReconciler DEBUG Adding change listener. 1575661161830 Sync.Engine.History.Tracker INFO Adding Places observer. 1575661161831 FirefoxAccounts TRACE not checking freshness of profile as it remains recent 1575661163200 Sync.SyncScheduler DEBUG Next sync in 600000 ms. (why=schedule) 1575661163445 Sync.SyncScheduler DEBUG Global Score threshold hit, triggering sync. 1575661163445 Sync.Service DEBUG User-Agent: Firefox/71.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) FxSync/1.73.0.20191202093317.desktop 1575661163446 Sync.Service INFO Starting sync at 2019-12-07 05:39:23 in browser session zwzg4kXSMXhi 1575661163446 Sync.Service DEBUG In sync: should login. 1575661163446 Sync.Service INFO User logged in successfully - verifying login. 1575661163446 Sync.BrowserIDManager DEBUG unlockAndVerifyAuthState already has (or can fetch) sync keys 1575661163446 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.login: success.login => success.status_ok 1575661163446 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.service: success.status_ok => error.login.failed 1575661163446 Sync.Service DEBUG Fetching unlocked auth state returned success.status_ok 1575661163446 Sync.BrowserIDManager INFO Getting keys 1575661163447 Sync.BrowserIDManager INFO Getting an assertion from: https://token.services.mozilla.com/1.0/sync/1.5 1575661163447 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG enter getAssertion() 1575661163452 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG got keyPair 1575661163452 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG getCertificateSigned: true true 1575661163454 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG POST request to https://api.accounts.firefox.com/v1/certificate/sign?service=sync 1575661163454 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG POST Length: 888 1575661163661 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG POST https://api.accounts.firefox.com/v1/certificate/sign?service=sync 200 1575661163662 Hawk DEBUG (Response) /certificate/sign?service=sync: code: 200 - Status text: OK 1575661163662 Hawk DEBUG Clock offset vs https://api.accounts.firefox.com/v1: -662 1575661163662 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG getCertificate got a new one: true 1575661163662 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG _updateAccountData with items: ["keyPair","cert"] 1575661163662 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG writing plain storage: ["email","sessionToken","uid","verified","device","oauthTokens","profileCache"] 1575661163662 FirefoxAccounts TRACE starting write of json user data: ["email","sessionToken","uid","verified","device","oauthTokens","profileCache"] 1575661163662 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG getAssertionFromCert 1575661163662 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG getAssertionFromCert returning signed: true 1575661163663 Sync.BrowserIDManager DEBUG Getting a token 1575661163663 Services.Common.TokenServerClient DEBUG Beginning BID assertion exchange: https://token.services.mozilla.com/1.0/sync/1.5 1575661163663 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG GET request to https://token.services.mozilla.com/1.0/sync/1.5 1575661163669 FirefoxAccounts TRACE finished write of json user data - took: 7 1575661163669 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG writing secure storage: ["kSync","kXCS","kExtSync","kExtKbHash"] 1575661163670 FirefoxAccounts TRACE starting write of user data to the login manager 1575661163699 FirefoxAccounts TRACE finished write of user data to the login manager 1575661164297 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG GET https://token.services.mozilla.com/1.0/sync/1.5 200 1575661164298 Services.Common.TokenServerClient DEBUG Got token response: 200 1575661164298 Services.Common.TokenServerClient DEBUG Successful token response 1575661164298 Sync.BulkKeyBundle INFO BulkKeyBundle being created for undefined 1575661164298 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.login: success.status_ok => success.login 1575661164298 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.service: error.login.failed => success.status_ok 1575661164299 Sync.BrowserIDManager DEBUG _findCluster returning https://sync-531-us-west-2.sync.services.mozilla.com/1.5/80483360/ 1575661164299 Sync.BrowserIDManager DEBUG Cluster value = https://sync-531-us-west-2.sync.services.mozilla.com/1.5/80483360/ 1575661164299 Sync.BrowserIDManager DEBUG Setting cluster to https://sync-531-us-west-2.sync.services.mozilla.com/1.5/80483360/ 1575661164299 Sync.Service DEBUG Caching URLs under storage user base: https://sync-531-us-west-2.sync.services.mozilla.com/1.5/80483360/ 1575661164300 FirefoxAccounts TRACE not checking freshness of profile as it remains recent 1575661164949 Sync.Resource DEBUG GET success 200 https://sync-531-us-west-2.sync.services.mozilla.com/1.5/80483360/info/collections 1575661164950 Sync.Service DEBUG Fetching server configuration: https://sync-531-us-west-2.sync.services.mozilla.com/1.5/80483360/info/configuration 1575661165153 Sync.Resource DEBUG GET success 200 https://sync-531-us-west-2.sync.services.mozilla.com/1.5/80483360/info/configuration 1575661165153 Sync.Service DEBUG Fetching global metadata record 1575661165356 Sync.Resource DEBUG GET success 200 https://sync-531-us-west-2.sync.services.mozilla.com/1.5/80483360/storage/meta/global 1575661165356 Sync.Service DEBUG Clearing cached meta record. metaModified is undefined, setting to 1574815475.89 1575661165670 Sync.Resource DEBUG GET success 200 https://sync-531-us-west-2.sync.services.mozilla.com/1.5/80483360/storage/meta/global 1575661165670 Sync.Service DEBUG Weave Version: 1.73.0 Local Storage: 5 Remote Storage: 5 1575661165671 Sync.Service DEBUG Fetching and verifying -- or generating -- symmetric keys. 1575661165671 Sync.Service INFO Testing info/collections: {"passwords":1575615833.85,"addons":1573168287.3,"tabs":1575661066.66,"clients":1575660973.5,"crypto":1498625392.07,"forms":1575617498.57,"meta":1574815475.89,"bookmarks":1575578169.01,"prefs":1572952053.55,"history":1575661067.19} 1575661165671 Sync.CollectionKeyManager INFO Testing for updateNeeded. Last modified: 0 1575661165671 Sync.Service INFO collection keys reports that a key update is needed. 1575661165683 Sync.Resource WARN GET request to https://sync-531-us-west-2.sync.services.mozilla.com/1.5/80483360/storage/crypto/keys failed: [Exception... "Abort" nsresult: "0x80004004 (NS_ERROR_ABORT)" location: "<unknown>" data: no] No traceback available 1575661165683 Sync.Service WARN Got exception fetching cryptoKeys.: [Exception... "Abort" nsresult: "0x80004004 (NS_ERROR_ABORT)" location: "<unknown>" data: no] No traceback available 1575661165684 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.login: success.login => error.login.failed 1575661165684 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.service: success.status_ok => error.login.failed 1575661165684 Sync.Service WARN Failed to fetch symmetric keys. Failing remote setup. 1575661165684 Sync.Service WARN Remote setup failed. 1575661165684 Sync.ErrorHandler ERROR Sync encountered a login error 1575661165684 Sync.SyncScheduler DEBUG Clearing sync triggers and the global score. 1575661165685 Sync.SyncScheduler DEBUG Clearing sync triggers and the global score. 1575661165688 Sync.Service DEBUG Exception calling WrappedLock: Error: Login failed: error.login.failed(resource://services-sync/service.js:1041:15) JS Stack trace: onNotify@service.js:1041:15 1575661165689 Sync.Service DEBUG Not syncing: login returned false.
Is there still an option to remove/delete synced data when disconnecting a device?
I use firefox on multiple PCs at work and sign in to sync my bookmarks and passwords; it's been an excellent feature given I'm not guaranteed to be in the same room and o… (read more)
I use firefox on multiple PCs at work and sign in to sync my bookmarks and passwords; it's been an excellent feature given I'm not guaranteed to be in the same room and on the same PC. Since the latest update, when I choose to disconnect, I no longer have the option to remove/delete synced data, specifically bookmarks and passwords. I can't find it anywhere is settings. Has this been removed?
who is Android 9?
I am being asked to confirm my primary acct email. I have a Samsung sm=367 galaxy J3 no 9 should be connected to this account. who are they they are causing a problem. … (read more)
I am being asked to confirm my primary acct email. I have a Samsung sm=367 galaxy J3 no 9 should be connected to this account. who are they they are causing a problem.
Firefox for Android
Where has the disconnect button gone!?! I use Firefox at work. I now have to manually delete history and bookmarks. PLEASE bring it back.
In the account section there used to be a disconnect button. This was very very useful. I used it every day. Now it has gone and signing out leaves my history, bookmarks … (read more)
In the account section there used to be a disconnect button. This was very very useful. I used it every day. Now it has gone and signing out leaves my history, bookmarks and, I discovered yesterday PASSWORDS in the browser. PLEASE bring it back. Why reduce functionality?? I don't get it. The whole point of having a Firefox account is to be able to take all these things with me wherever I log in. An ESSENTIAL part of that is not leaving behind anything when I log out. Thanks
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I don't have or use a mobile phone, or have a phone number, but have multiple desktops already running Sync... why won't my new one sync up without a phone #?
I don't have or use a mobile phone, or have a phone number, but have multiple desktops already running Sync... why won't my new one sync up without a phone #?
How do I retrieve my secret phrase?
I set up firefox sync on my wife's computer when I built it a few months ago to transfer stuff from her old computer easily. Her hard drive crashed recently and I though… (read more)
I set up firefox sync on my wife's computer when I built it a few months ago to transfer stuff from her old computer easily. Her hard drive crashed recently and I thought I would be able to sync back to this computer but apparently that's not the case. I forgot the password but luckily remembered the username, so I reset my password through the link in the email that was sent to me. I can't remember my secret phrase at all, and don't want to lose everything on the server. Obviously I'm the right person since I reset the password through the email I registered with. How can I retrieve / reset my secret phrase without losing all the data on the server?
I can't see anything to confirm that I'm not a robot! The box is empty.
I'm using FF 3.6.8 on a Mac with OS 10.6.4. I can't see any words in the box where I'm supposed to confirm that I'm not a robot, so I can't start Firefox Sync. What setti… (read more)
I'm using FF 3.6.8 on a Mac with OS 10.6.4. I can't see any words in the box where I'm supposed to confirm that I'm not a robot, so I can't start Firefox Sync. What settings may be wrong?
Bookmarks Sync but Passwords do not. How can Passwords be enabled ?
Desktop and Laptop have Xmarks but only the Bookmark is being synchronised. When I click to authorise synchronisation request the box that is momentarily on the screen sh… (read more)
Desktop and Laptop have Xmarks but only the Bookmark is being synchronised. When I click to authorise synchronisation request the box that is momentarily on the screen shows passwords not enabled ! I do not know why and cannot find a way of remedying.
After set up on desktop, iphone says user name not found
Need to reset user name, not just other info After I set up sync desktop shows my user name, but iphone says user name not found.
e for the iPhoneAfter downloading Firefox Hom, I restarted Firefox but was not prompted to create an account.
I was emailed instructions for installing the free Firefox Sync add-on on my desktop. After successfully installing the add-on (Step 1) after Firefox restarted I was not … (read more)
I was emailed instructions for installing the free Firefox Sync add-on on my desktop. After successfully installing the add-on (Step 1) after Firefox restarted I was not prompted to create an account (Step 2). So I'm stuck.
Firefox Sync: Must all Firefox versions be the same?
My laptop uses Firefox 3.6.8, but my Windows XP desktop is stuck at Firefox 3.0.19. (Firefox crashes when I use 3.5 or 3.6 on my XP system. I've never been able to debug … (read more)
My laptop uses Firefox 3.6.8, but my Windows XP desktop is stuck at Firefox 3.0.19. (Firefox crashes when I use 3.5 or 3.6 on my XP system. I've never been able to debug the reason.)
So, will Firefox Sync work with this mix?
Thanks