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I want to reduce the Firefox data footprint on my device

Firefox for Android Sync configuration
Raygen replied 15 timer siden
Stephen Armstrong
Stephen Armstrong

I see that the sync feature has caused my device to save 37,841 web pages from across all my synced devices, taking up 1.38 GB of precious memory. I have unchecked the sync browsing history checkbox in settings. I have gone to accounts and sync on my device settings, and all I see is other accounts, with no option to see or add Firefox, so that I can use the switching feature in my device settings to unsync Firefox from this device. What I want to know is, if I clear browsing data on this device, will it clear the browsing data from all my logged in devices? Or will I be okay, since I unchecked the browsing history checkbox in the Firefox settings for sync?

I see that the sync feature has caused my device to save 37,841 web pages from across all my synced devices, taking up 1.38 GB of precious memory. I have unchecked the sync browsing history checkbox in settings. I have gone to accounts and sync on my device settings, and all I see is other accounts, with no option to see or add Firefox, so that I can use the switching feature in my device settings to unsync Firefox from this device. What I want to know is, if I clear browsing data on this device, will it clear the browsing data from all my logged in devices? Or will I be okay, since I unchecked the browsing history checkbox in the Firefox settings for sync?

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Raygen
Raygen

Since you disabled sync for history, clearing history should not clear it on your other devices. But if you want to be sure: temporarily log out from your firefox account, clear history, and then log back in (making sure not to enable back history sync)

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