A lot of questions about sync
Hello,
1) First, I want to view the tab opened on my firefox for android with my firefox for PC, how do I do that ? Solved it's under 'history'.
2) Then is there a limit to the number of tabs synchronized because I don't see all the tabs opened on my PC, on my android device ?
3)If I allow sync to automatically sync in by authorising 'auto sync' the data usage section of Android, is this also going to affect my other account like my google one ? (plus, 4) I cannot chose what to manually sync because it's greyed when this authorisation isn't done)
5)What happen when I check or uncheck one of the box in sync parameters ? what happen of the data on Mozilla servers ?
6)Are the synced item in the history or tabs displayed in any way for example with a little icon when for example using the awesome bar ?
Finally I thank you all in advance for your answers and I think Sync may need a little more extensive help section, doesn't you ?
PS: May be some of those are bugs that need to be fixes feel free to report to bugzilla or to suggest me to do it :)
Modified by flofl0
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7) The tabs displayed on my android device seem in a weird order, may be the order of last opening ?
8) When displaying the sync tabs on my pc on about:sync-tabs, I can't close them ? ie It's just a way of transferring the url between devices ?
Modified by flofl0
1) History or about:sync-tabs or History > Tabs from other devices
2) I do not know if there is a limit, I have never had more than 100 active tabs. I would supposed its limited to resources.
3)This will only affect account data. Google+ and Firefox accounts are separate.
4) Try connecting to wifi and see if that grey goes away. Does it ask you to enable cookies?
5)Its all or nothing with the check box. If you uncheck passwords on one device, all of the devices will stop syncing passwords. The data will be stored up to that day you unchecked/checked.
6)This would be a cool request, but I am not sure what you mean, can you elaborate here?
The knowledge is being gathered in the kb and in the support forum. Check out https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/for.../710354?last=61051
PS: May be some of those are bugs that need to be fixes feel free to report to bugzilla or to suggest me to do it :) - Never hesitate, better to say something or ask then not :-)
7) Is the order abc order? The history is historical ideally and tabs as well.
8) There used to be a way to do this, but currently there is no way to send tabs via sync until it syncs all devices.
Modified by guigs
Thanks for your answers
2) You mean by the resources of the pc running ? (it's how I know I have too much when Fx cannot start anymore despite I think it should handle a lot more tabs when they're unloaded) It's probably not the case :(
3)I tried and it work now :) , you were right but since all account I pre-checked for synchronizing as soon as you authorise automatic synchronisation they sync.
4)This was an usability problem when auto sync is not authorized you cant properly select the item you may wanna sync manually
5) This is great :)
7)no it's not abc order, 'tabs as well' uh I doubt it you wouldn't want of browser which each time you click on a tab, move it to the top or the bottom of your tab list
8)So if I get it sync for the tabs is more POP than IMAP in the way that you cannot act on the data you're receiving it's just a copy :( That doesn't sound like real syncing to me.