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When following the instruction to sync bookmarks on Android phone it leads me to items that are not there. Open Firefox mobile on phone. Ok. Hit the 3 dots drop down. Ok. Choose sync and save. Not there? I click my email and it shows sync. I click that and it shows the last time I sync my phone. 0 minutes. Ok. It shows a QR code to scan from the Firefox app. It instructs to click ready to scan. That's not there either. If instructions lead you down paths that are not present, the instructions are useless. Anyone else having this experience? Thanks..........

因工作需求，分别在五台电脑登录我的火狐账号（国内版账号），进行书签操作共享。 现在不知道因为什么问题导致，是火狐的历史书签没法多端同步（自动/手动均无效）， 其中尝试设置了 排障模式/about：config部分参数： ①contextParam--fx_desktop_v3； ②identity.fxaccounts.oauth.enabled设置为false，仍然未解决问题。 有解决方法方便直接联系3003378498@qq.com，求求大神帮帮忙，谢谢

I recently got a new PC, and all my information was erased from it. I thought it wouldn't be a problem, as I expected to get everything back by logging into my account. However, after trying to sync my account for hours and searching on Google and YouTube for solutions, none of my information has returned.

When I contacted the person I bought the PC from, he said he couldn't help because I had forgotten to do something, possibly related to a Firefox update. I'm devastated and was hoping someone here could help. Is there a moderator or administrator who could assist with account recovery?

Instead of syncing my current settings, sync just overwrote them with an old, outdated copy from another device, completely ruining my addons, bookmarks and various other settings. I managed to restore the bookmarks, but is there really no proper way to undo this or prevent such thing from happening in the first place? Is there no way to control if I want to sync my setting TO the server or FROM the server? How such a vital decision is even made then and why wouldn't there be a way for a user to control that? This is so disappointing :(

Instructions everywhere say to open Firefox on mobile, select the options menu, and select "Sync and save your data." However, "Sync and save your data" does not exist. I cannot sync my passwords from mobile to my desktop.

I upgraded to Windows 11 yesterday. I have always been logged in to Firefox with my email, so I thought the bookmarks will come back once I log in on the new windows, but that didn't happen. Some of these bookmarks are work related, so they're fairly important.

Although I'm using the same email, my profile picture is gone too—replaced with a default one. (Not AI generated sentence. I just like using Em dashes)

What could have happened and what can I do to get my bookmarks back? I appreciate any suggestion you can give me.

Thank you in advance.

Hi,

I changed my password in my Mozilla account and now I can no longer sync my firefox for android.

I scan the QR code and on my android screen proceeded normal and asking me to confirm but in my desktop I get an error.

"General application error Something went wrong. Try again later."

I also tried in safe mode with no luck.

What to do now?

Firefox won't sync anything since a while back, maybe since two months back, I am unable to force sync. Clearing cashe, uninstalling the app, relogging both phone and pc, neither of these syncs bookmarks across the devices. I am able to send tabs in-between the devices. Biggest issue is I can't save bookmarks on one device and expect them to be available on my other device Nokia 7.2

Hello, when I first switched from google chrome to Firefox I could not figure out how to create one browser with two profiles like I had with chrome. So I went to about:profiles and created two separate browsers not realizing you all had an option to create two profiles under one browser. I finally figured out how to have to profiles under one browser by going here https://www.tech2geek.net/how-to-use-the-new-updated-profile-manager-in-firefox-2025/#google_vignette but I can not figure out how to sync the google chrome profile that I had previously to this new profile under the same browser. How do I sync this? I hit sync and nothing changed. I am signed in and I can not figure out how to get the browser profile to sync with this new profile under one browser. I really hate how Firefox named both of these Profiles because it is extremely hard to explain this situation.

I have switched from chrome to firefox on my windows 11 laptop. I want to do the same on my pc but after signing into the Mozilla account, the bookmarks do not come in. History, and other things seem to work fine. I tried manually synchronizing in the settings over and over again but nothing works.

about:sync-log has the following: File:error-sync-1756470933956.txt 7 KB 29-08-2025 18:05:33 File:error-sync-1756472283448.txt 10 KB 29-08-2025 18:28:03 File:error-sync-1756472834423.txt 4 KB 29-08-2025 18:37:14 File:error-sync-1756475717646.txt 15 KB 29-08-2025 19:25:17 File:error-sync-1756537352383.txt 11 KB 30-08-2025 12:32:32 File:error-sync-1756550876616.txt 7 KB 30-08-2025 16:17:56 File:error-sync-1756555300057.txt 4 KB 30-08-2025 17:31:40 File:error-sync-1756596355421.txt 25 KB 31-08-2025 04:55:55 File:error-sync-1756614480046.txt 30 KB 31-08-2025 09:58:00 File:error-sync-1756616854913.txt 21 KB 31-08-2025 10:37:34 File:error-sync-1756638623482.txt 12 KB 31-08-2025 16:40:23 File:error-sync-1756639451332.txt 17 KB 31-08-2025 16:54:11 File:error-sync-1756652104368.txt 4 KB 31-08-2025 20:25:04 File:error-sync-1756653367478.txt 6 KB 31-08-2025 20:46:07 File:error-sync-1756704617631.txt 12 KB 01-09-2025 11:00:17 File:error-sync-1756802293749.txt 18 KB 02-09-2025 14:08:13 File:error-sync-1756824621856.txt 30 KB 02-09-2025 20:20:21 File:error-sync-1756881547437.txt 9 KB 03-09-2025 12:09:07 File:error-sync-1756910518609.txt 22 KB 03-09-2025 20:11:58 File:error-sync-1756914122579.txt 32 KB 03-09-2025 21:12:02 File:error-sync-1756945880430.txt 17 KB 04-09-2025 06:01:20 File:error-sync-1756956775316.txt 19 KB 04-09-2025 09:02:55 File:error-sync-1756970167229.txt 6 KB 04-09-2025 12:46:07 File:error-sync-1757001011892.txt 11 KB 04-09-2025 21:20:11 File:error-sync-1757001024107.txt 29 KB 04-09-2025 21:20:24 File:error-sync-1757046224475.txt 16 KB 05-09-2025 09:53:44 File:error-sync-1757046230938.txt 30 KB 05-09-2025 09:53:50 File:error-sync-1757057610720.txt 19 KB 05-09-2025 13:03:30 File:error-sync-1757081977371.txt 26 KB 05-09-2025 19:49:37 File:error-sync-1757093018785.txt 148 KB 05-09-2025 22:53:38

I have no idea what to do other than going back to chrome where things just worked and I didn't have to spend hours looking at forums for solutions that do not work...

here's a screenshot from the last txt file

I got my mother a new PC. I'm trying to sync Firefox data from the old PC to the new PC. My mother does not have a smart phone.

This isn't syncing PC to smart phone. It's syncing PC to PC. I thought just entering the username/email address and password on the new PC would do it, but it isn't.

[There are still a lot of people who don't have a smart phone and will never understand one.] [If I use my smart phone, it will sync from my data, not my mother's]