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trying to pair iphone firefox to desktop firefox. i can the desktop bar code and it asks for an authenication number. when i go to the google authenicator app on my iphone it has a 6 digit number but the desktop does not accept it. Am i getting the code from the correct place?

i have login sync Firefox but i just installed a Linux version but it would not take what i typed into security key .... what format restriction that is not explained

have liked how sync works across many systems i have used ...

just started Garuda and when i used FireDragon and tried to sync it would not continue when i tried a few KEY but it would not tell me why it would not work

would like to see what is required ...

later when i looked for help all i see is a multi group of 4 digits but still not sure what form it is looking .... thought a simple single number or letter combo was needed....

Hello, I have had a firefox account for many years and during this time I changed my email address in firefox. With the newest update I have been logged out and I am unable to get back in.

Now if I try to log in with the original email address it says "Primary account email required for sign-in" and if I try my current email (which should be the primary) then it asks me to create a new account.

My account is lost somewhere in between! Please help

Hi

First of all sorry if my English is not correct. I have a problem trying to login to an old firefox account, though I remember the password I cannot change or add a new email because the primary email from the old account is from a email service that no longer exist (openmailbox.org), so I cannot receive the security code. Although I have a new firefox account with other mail that I use regularly, I need to access to my old account to recover an old login. Is there something that can be done or I lost my old data forever?

Hi Everyone - I was using firefox on my previous macbook pro and I shifted to a new macbook pro. On my older device I had logged in to the firefox and I was expecting my bookmark and saved login data to be backed up. Since I had to stop using that device, I logged out of my firefox account, and deleted everything on that device. I do not have any access to the older device.

Recently I started using the new device and logged into firefox using the same login on the new device. I cannot see any of my bookmarks and saved logins from my previous device getting synced to the new device.

How can this be resolved?

Hi,

I reinstalled my Windows from Windows 10 Home edition to the following: Windows 10 Enterprise N LTSC.

I cannot sync my bookmarks in Firefox since I reinstalled Windows. It just keep syncing and does not sync. I am logged in the browser with my Firefox user.

What could be the issue?

Thanks for help

Jonas

Hi,

I would like to open tabs from other devices much faster on my Firefox for MacOS. Normally you'll have to open the menu. Home Content can't be edited that way. Does anyone know of extensions or addons that might deliver this?

Best, Stefan

hello,

to put it simply, on sunday 2nd January 2022 6pm CET i lost my laptop with OSX due to a major hardware failure and didnt have any bacup. Today on 4th i managed to receive a windows laptop and was trying to restore my firefox account but couldnt remind myself the password. The login is my email. I couldnt sync i mean no data was restored - found info that while resetting account i will loose all my firefox bacup. My question is if its possible to restore my backup from befor 2nd Januray and restore it to my present account?

sincerly yours, Lukasz

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.

Hello,

I have another account with firefox and I don't want to reset the account. I've input the password correctly and was emailed a code to login into, but when I input it, firefox said the number was incorrect. and now when I input the password, (I had firefox save the login info and I manually input it) it says it's incorrect. Please help. :c

Hi, Approximately 8 years ago, I deleted my google account, which I use on firefox. And 5 years ago, I lost my computer as well. When I tried to sync firefox data on my new computer, firefox asked me to verify via email, which is deleted. I have no longer an access to my google account to verify, and the only way to sync my old firefox account is losing my old data. I had to create a new firefox account. Is there any way to restore my profile data? (Note: I am sending this question via the same account that I need to restore profile data from). Regards

I use the Firefox app on an Android phone and I've renamed the device to "Samsung Galaxy A50". When I use Firefox on my computer if I click on the "Show tabs from other devices" button instead of my custom name it shows a default name with the model number.

"Send Page to Device" does display the personalized name.

I've tried logging off from the Android app and logging in again. The custom name appears for a few hours but then reverts to the default name again.

I can't log into the Firefox app on Windows or iOS. I don't have access to my email which is required for 2 factor authentication. Is there a way I can still log back in?

I tried multiple times to sign up using my email address that uses the domain @sleepy.fish. I was slightly tipped off when firefox attempted to ask if I had made a mistake entering my email... i tried multiple ways to get the verification emails send both via web client and ios app and it simply would not send. To sanity check I created a new account using an old @gmail.com address and immediately got the verification email.

I'm kinda migrating off of mega corp google products though, hence the signing up for firefox sync haha. Would be great if I could figure out how to ensure delivery of the verification email so I can complete account setup with my custom domain email

I noticed that in the "Synced Tabs" on Firefox for Windows 10, there are duplicate devices listed down that are not listed in my "Connected Devices" page. I noticed this after I was fixing a bug on my Firefox Installation that ended with me uninstalling and re-installing it, then signing back into sync.

Essentially, the "Synced Tabs" it shows 2 different "devices" for the same laptop:

What is even stranger is that these Duplicates don't show up on my other Firefox devices such as my Phone and iPad, they only appear on my laptop's instance of Firefox.

i had like 4 or 5 startup pages. i reinstalled firefox and synced twice so it could reclaim them from my home computer but nothing happened. i tried to redo it and the option is not there. not sure if this was an update but if so i hate it. i added 3 of my startup pages to the home button. so maybe i can get them from pressing that. but i prefer to have them on startup and just have one page as my home page.