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Is there a way to turn sync on and off? For security reasons...

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My car was broken into over the weekend and I was so happy my laptop wasn't in the trunk (as it usually is), but it made me start to wonder since I have sync setup on all 3 of my computers (2 towers 1 laptop), that if it had been taken they would have access to all my bookmarks and sign ins, even though I have a windows password on the acct I also know how easy it is to get past that with a few google searches.

I know I can change the sync password so tomorrow or the next day the updates won't continue to sync to that machine, but is there a way to sign in or sign out of firefox or my sync, so that maybe they couldn't just open firefox and access my email facebook yahoo youtube amazon and many other sites that the sign in info and whatnot is all linked.

I did try by changing my password on the main tower pc to see what it would do to the laptop essentially I can still access everything but it just doesn't update.

I am thinking of trying something like keepass would that work well with firefox and sync?

My car was broken into over the weekend and I was so happy my laptop wasn't in the trunk (as it usually is), but it made me start to wonder since I have sync setup on all 3 of my computers (2 towers 1 laptop), that if it had been taken they would have access to all my bookmarks and sign ins, even though I have a windows password on the acct I also know how easy it is to get past that with a few google searches. I know I can change the sync password so tomorrow or the next day the updates won't continue to sync to that machine, but is there a way to sign in or sign out of firefox or my sync, so that maybe they couldn't just open firefox and access my email facebook yahoo youtube amazon and many other sites that the sign in info and whatnot is all linked. I did try by changing my password on the main tower pc to see what it would do to the laptop essentially I can still access everything but it just doesn't update. I am thinking of trying something like keepass would that work well with firefox and sync?

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the-edmeister
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You can change your Sync Key / Recovery Key which clears all your Sync data from the Sync Server and prevents a lost device from accessing your Sync account in the future. It does nothing about clearing your data on the lost device, though. You should change your Sync password, too.

Your password data is very important, bookmarks relatively unimportant other than a thief knowing your interests from those bookmarks. Keepass is one option, but have you looked into Persona from Mozilla?

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/