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Has firefox sync been discontinued?

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I've been having problems with Sync. It won't sync on this computer. So tonight I decided to DELETE it and add it back. I've searched for it, but there is NO download for it. It doesn't even show up in add ons. Has it been discontinued? I see Xmarks is back???

I've been having problems with Sync. It won't sync on this computer. So tonight I decided to DELETE it and add it back. I've searched for it, but there is NO download for it. It doesn't even show up in add ons. Has it been discontinued? I see Xmarks is back???

Réiteach roghnaithe

You really need to search for alternatives for the 3.6 compatible add-ons that aren't compatible with Firefox 9.

Firefox 4 was released 10 months ago and any add-on that hasn't been updated beyond Firefox 3.6 by now should be considered "dead", or abandoned. Most add-ons that were updated for Firefox 4 should work in Firefox 9.0, but some may generate errors or may have a feature or two that doesn't work perfectly if the add-on developer hasn't updated their add-on for a few minor changes made between the Firefox 4 and Firefox 9 versions.

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This may be of use:

firefox sync is not working

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I've been there. I created a new 'code' added it to my 3 computers, but its still not working well. It seems to be trying on one of my computers, but this computer [the one I want all to sync to] kept saying it wasn't able to sync.

Now I deleted it, and doing a search for it in add ons, it doesn't show up. I added xmarks back to this machine. Maybe I'll need to just use it on my 3 machines?

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The Firefox Sync extension that you need on Firefox 3.6.x versions has been redrawn and is no longer available.
You will have to update to the latest Firefox 9.0.1 release if you want to use Sync.

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I always keep updated, but I'm going to lose so many of my add ons that are not compatible with 9! I keep waiting for at least a few more to be updated. So I guess I'll just do without sync for another month or so and hopefully I can have my addons working!

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Réiteach Roghnaithe

You really need to search for alternatives for the 3.6 compatible add-ons that aren't compatible with Firefox 9.

Firefox 4 was released 10 months ago and any add-on that hasn't been updated beyond Firefox 3.6 by now should be considered "dead", or abandoned. Most add-ons that were updated for Firefox 4 should work in Firefox 9.0, but some may generate errors or may have a feature or two that doesn't work perfectly if the add-on developer hasn't updated their add-on for a few minor changes made between the Firefox 4 and Firefox 9 versions.