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Hi everybody this will be a long question, and I would be really grateful for any kind of help anyone could give me, this is my case:

I use `firefox-sync` to manage all my logins information and firefox-sync's password is the unique password I save manually.

Currently I has problems with my O.S and I decided reinstall it. But also I have 2FA enable for mostly of my accounts, and firefox-sync is not the exception, and firefox-sync's 2FA is based on my gmail, so when I tried get logged on firefox-sync, firefox asks me for my verification code, but my verification code is in my gmail, and my gmail's password is in firefox-sync.

So I lost access to all my accounts, I lose my gmail, github, gitlab, stackoverflow, discord, etc etc... :'(

From the gmail side, I tried all that gmail let me try but unsuccessfully.

So, the only possibility that I see, is recover the information of the formatted partition and rebuild the previous state of Firefox. I mean:

Reading about firefox loggins, and taking a look to firefox's workdir (`$HOME/.mozilla`), I see firefox saves login's info in a json file located in `$HOME/.mozilla/$profile$/logins.json`.

So the basic idea is with a data recovery tool, try recover `.mozilla`s directory and replace it over the current environment so when I start firefox can get access to my login's info. But I'm not sure how much it is possible to recover the whole directory, and if is not posible, my question is:

What files next to `logins.json` should be my recovery targets to replace inside the `.mozilla` folder in order to reconstruct my accounts login information?

Firefox version: Mozilla Firefox for Linux Mint mint-001 - 1.0 (123.0 64-bit). OS: Linux Mint 21.3.

I have signed into my account and turned on sync. I have also clicked "Sync now". It does not sync. I have seen numerous support requests like this. The usual responses (make sure you are logged in with the right account, sign out and sign in again, restart Firefox, uninstall and reinstall) do not produce the desired result.

From the other questions I have seen, people are as perplexed about this as I am. Some wait days before, by no apparent trigger, sync starts working. Or perhaps it doesn't.

It is very important to me that this should be syncing. I really do not want to wait days on the off-chance that something might happen.

And yes, I am 100% certain that I am logged into the correct Firefox account.

Grateful for help in resolving this.

I had a hard drive fail and needed to do an entire new install. One of the very first things I do is install firefox and sync so I have all my sites tabs and passwords.

I did this and got the Secure connection failed errors instantly thereafter. no reboot nothing fixed it. Bing chrome opera all fail to work. refusing all secure connections. It will load microsoft but I cannot log in. It will load 1000 other sites as long as they are not the SSL pages. No other browser will load either.

This is instantly after signing in to sync.

I was left with no choice but to assume something got corrupted and wipe and redo windows AGAIN on this new drive.

This time I downloaded everything with bing and edge. Then when I was done after two days. I downloaded FF and tested it.

Worked great.

Signed into sync and BAM, all browsers and all websites refuse connections.

I have signed out of sync. I have deleted firefox. I have cleared SSL and DNS and every other setting I can think of or that chat gpt suggested. from cmd line. hard.

No remaining browsers will load. New firefox with no profile and no sync will load.

Whatever sync DID remains totally systemic and persistent and ONLY a total wipe of the drive fixed it last time.

Why will FF simply DO something like this and WTF did it do?

Hi I use Firefox on 2 mac and 1 IoS device. The passwords or saved logins don't seem to sync across devices, even though they are all logged in via my account. Kindly advise.

Hi, I did a clean install from win10 to win11, then installed firefox and logged in to my account but it havent synced anything? All my saved passwords and bookmarks are gone!?

Can someone please help me get them back! Does anyone have a solution for this?

Read something about that a backup is saved on your computer? Isnt saved to a cloud? Thats what a thought! I have done a clean install on a new drive, old drive i already wiped aswell! Doesnt have a windows.old dir or anything.

Please tell me everything isnt lost!

Best regards Gabriel

I have a 2nd laptop that I need to sync for my passwords and bookmarks, everytime I try to sync it says incorrect password, when I know it's correct. then locks me out after a few attempts but it works fine on the main laptop! Please, I need help! thank you

Hi,

On September 15, 2022 I created this thread here on Firefox Support Forum and now I finally have an answer to the question, but as we can see my thread was archived and I can't update anything, so I decided to create a new thread just to mark my previous question as solved and bring it an answer.

I contacted Mozilla Firefox developers and got a response: Firefox is no longer integrated with Gravatar. Considering this, I can tranquilly say there is no bug or problem with my account as I thought. It's a pity that Firefox no longer support Gravatar integration, and even if I use an old version I will face the same "issue" because the Gravatar integration was a online feature linked to the Firefox account*, not to the browser itself.

Info source: https://github.com/mozilla/fxa/issues/15665

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Admins can now archive and close this thread, I only ask to keep it online to help who may need this information in the future. Thanks.

• Actually I made a mistake when I wrote this, the Gravatar integration was an online feature linked to the Mozilla account, not Firefox. James explained the distinction on #4 post of the current thread.

Last edit: On January 31, 2023 I created this thread on r/firefox but no one answered precisely. This current thread here on Firefox Support Forum also solves what was asked on reddit. The thread created on January 31, 2023 and posted on r/firefox was archived as well, like what happened to my thread with the same theme here on Firefox Support Forum, then I also created a new thread on r/firefox to mark my question as solved.

yesterday my main computer died - I am trying to work with 2 others (newer actually) - I can get firefox to sync on one of them but not on the other

I tried to delete firefox and put it back on and it still didn't sync

help

Hi

I am a web dev, and need FF help on this. All of my sync data is gone, I sign out and back in twice, I checked the profiles there's only one, all of my bookmarks, plugins & extensions everything is gone. Please I need those bookmarks some of them were very important to me I can't lose those.

Back-story: I recently want to try two distro that I had been on my list from quite a while now, VanillaOS & BlendOS, I worked on those for 3 or 4 days, before switching back to Arch, on both of them everything was working fine, I had all of my data. On Arch I had to reset my password because I forgot. Then the issue started, at first I thought maybe my internet was slow or something but now on the 2nd my data is still not synced.

I even signed out and back in, I checked the profiles(screenshot below). What should I do?

Good morning!

Since v112.0.2 my Firefox logged itself out of Sync and will not allow me log back in. When I click the "Sync and Save Data" in the pulldown menu, the page spinner just spins and spins. The login page never loads.

Oddly, I couldn't even login to my Mozilla account here to post this. I had to use "Ungoogled" Chromium to load the page. I've never had any Sync issues with FF, that I can remember. This just "appeared" with v112.0.2 and continues with v113.0.

I did try to access the Sync login page while in Safe (Troubleshooting) Mode... no difference, though; same spinning spinner.

I'm running Slackware Linux on a desktop computer. No other changes have been made on this system other than upgrading from FF v112.0.1. to v112.0.2. This is when the Sync issue started.

Any ideas? Any assitance would be very much appreciated. I could just go to Chromium full-time, but I would not want to do that. I've been a Mozilla browser user for 23 years. The Chromium is only on my system as a backup browser, along with SeaMonkey. Yeah... I have a Seamonkey. :)

Anyway, thanks in advance for any help/ideas to allow me to troubleshoot/resolve this.

Regards,

~Eric

Hi there, I'm hoping someone can help with this. I recently signed into a shared computer with my personal Firefox account, and it automatically imported all my history, my browser extensions, and bookmarks, including personal/secure information that I wouldn't want on a shared computer. I tried signing out and deleting the sites and login information, even going so far as to completely delete all of my browsing history and cookies and signing in with another account, but all the supposedly deleted history and logins and extensions were then transferred to this second account. I have deleted all my data, even uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox, and all the data from my personal account keeps haunting me as suggestions when I type in the task bar or suggested usernames when I log in to websites. How can I actually delete this information so it's not on a shared computer? Thank you!

Hello,

I have not had any problems with Firefox sync and passwords until recently. I used to use Firefox on desktop, on an iPad, and on an android, with no issues accessing my passwords. Recently I replaced my android phone with an iPhone, and after signing onto Firefox sync on said iPhone, the list of my passwords was accessible on the iPhone, but when i used it for auto-fill, it would only load the username, but not the password. This caused no issue with Firefox sync on desktop or iPad however, so I just let it be. However, after 3 months of no issue, when I open both my iPad and desktop today, all my old passwords are gone, and replaced with the few passwords I directly saved with Firefox on my iPhone.

i have tried restoring my old Firefox profile using backup software to access older files, but I am unable to regain my passwords this way. I have tried using profile data from several date ranges and that has not helped either. The issue seems to lie with Firefox sync with iOS, but I am at an absolute loss on how to resolve this, so any help at all would be much appreciated.

Hi , My main machine is a personal windows laptop. Firefox sync works fine and syncs all things including "all" my installed extensions . recently company issues me a macbook and on it when i install firefox and login my account for sync it syncs other things like bookmarks but does not sync all my extensions only a few of them.

I already tried multiple things like sync delibrately from windows and then pressing sync on mac or reinstalling firefox on mac . but its the same issue.

few of the extensions that are missing :

1. Auto Tab Discard
2. Download Manager (S3)
3. DownthemAll
4. Stylus ( very important for me)
5. Tab Session Manager (THE most important for me)
6. TamperMonkey ( Important)
7. (Temporary Containers)
8. uBlock Origin
9. Xkit Rewritten
10. Zoom Image

So I forgot the password for my account, if I reset it, and therefore reset all of my bookmarks history etc, can I recover them by syncing again with my phone or is the account reset across devices?

There are 2 processes involved in Firefox Sync, and 0 differentiation between them in the language used to describe what Firefox Sync does in any of the documentation, this makes nearly every discussion on the topic highly confusing to borderline misleading.

When you press Sync, you are pushing settings to Firefox servers. When you sign in to Sync, you are pulling settings from Firefox servers.

Both of these steps are referred to interchangeably as "syncing" and there is next to no documentation of what causes each to occur nor what they actually do.

Why is this dangerous you might ask? Well, let's say I buy a new computer, I want to set it up the same way I use all my devices, so I sign in to sync to synchronize my settings, makes perfect sense. Nothing tells me anything is happening when I sign in, so I click the sync button because I want to synchronize my settings with my other devices. Big mistake. I've just overwritten the server-side sync profile with a default Firefox profile. You know how you fix that? You sign in and press the sync button to overwrite the sync profile again. But you know what happens when you sign in? You become synced with the now blank sync profile and lose all the settings that you want to be pushing to the sync profile. This just happened to me. Thankfully I was only choosing to sync add-ons and options AT THE TIME and I have backups that are about 6 months old and I rarely change settings, but some things like my homepage URLs are something that I do change fairly often, and I'm sure some additional sites were whitelisted since by default I just reject all cookies. I also thankfully use policies.json to block updates so I didn't immediately get assaulted by that too.

SO! I HIGHLY suggest that when merely signing in to Sync, the default should be for syncing to be off to start off with, so that you can choose what to "sync" BEFORE it occurs. However, because of the language, the question arises, what am I choosing to sync for? Am I choosing what to PULL from servers? Or am I choosing what gets PUSHED to the servers? When syncing is turned on, does that mean I an pulling the settings that I have chosen? Or am I am pulling ALL settings while only pushing what I have chosen IF I click the Sync button? Or do I push EVERYTHING?

It's incredibly unclear how the Sync feature works and both of the "main" articles on it are completely useless for understanding it because the term "sync" is used interchangeably for pushing or pulling settings.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-choose-what-information-sync-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sync-custom-preferences

What are the correct steps to rectify this horrid situation? Sign-in, set-up sync, choose "Options" and "Add-Ons" again, THEN copy over the backup settings, THEN Sync them to the "cloud"? If I have 2 different devices setup with sync, and 1 chooses to sync options and the other chooses to sync bookmarks, then I click sync on BOTH devices repeatedly, what occurs?

Hello dear supports i created a firefox account with my pc and i just have that on my pc not mobile and i just sync all of my info(sync now) and i would change my windows for viruses,now i reinstall firefox and singin in my acc and i dont see my pass,history,bookmarks and etc.pls help me i really need those

Hi got this error message:

1654435115415 FirefoxAccounts TRACE initializing new storage manager 1654435115416 FirefoxAccounts TRACE starting fetch of json user data 1654435115418 Sync.Status INFO Resetting Status. 1654435115418 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.service: undefined => success.status_ok 1654435115422 Sync.SyncScheduler TRACE Setting SyncScheduler policy values to defaults. 1654435115422 Sync.SyncScheduler DEBUG Clearing sync triggers and the global score. 1654435115423 Sync.Service INFO Loading Weave 1.103.0 1654435115424 Sync.Engine.Clients DEBUG Engine constructed 1654435115425 Sync.Engine.Clients DEBUG Resetting clients last sync time 1654435115429 Sync.Engine.Addons DEBUG Engine constructed 1654435115436 FirefoxAccounts TRACE finished fetch of json user data - took: 20 1654435115437 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG reading secure storage with existing: [] 1654435115437 FirefoxAccounts TRACE starting fetch of user data from the login manager 1654435115444 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG secure read fetched items: ["scopedKeys","kSync","kXCS","kExtSync","kExtKbHash"] 1654435115444 FirefoxAccounts TRACE initializing of new storage manager done 1654435115478 Sync.Engine.Addons DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: addons 1654435115482 Sync.Engine.Bookmarks DEBUG Engine constructed 1654435115514 Sync.Engine.Bookmarks DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: bookmarks 1654435115517 Sync.Engine.Forms DEBUG Engine constructed 1654435115521 Sync.Engine.Forms DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: forms 1654435115523 Sync.Engine.History DEBUG Engine constructed 1654435115526 Sync.Engine.History DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: history 1654435115528 Sync.Engine.Passwords DEBUG Engine constructed 1654435115533 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG FxAccountsWebChannel registered: account_updates with origin https://accounts.firefox.com 1654435115533 Sync.Engine.Passwords DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: passwords 1654435115535 Sync.Engine.Prefs DEBUG Engine constructed 1654435115536 Sync.Engine.Prefs DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: prefs 1654435115537 Sync.Engine.Tabs DEBUG Engine constructed 1654435115538 Sync.Engine.Tabs DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: tabs 1654435115538 Sync.Engine.Tabs DEBUG Resetting tabs last sync time 1654435115555 Sync.Engine.CreditCards DEBUG Engine constructed 1654435115637 Sync.Engine.CreditCards DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: creditcards 1654435115651 Sync.Engine.Extension-Storage DEBUG Engine constructed 1654435115735 Sync.Engine.Extension-Storage DEBUG SyncEngine initialized: extension-storage 1654435115736 Sync.Service INFO Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:101.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/101.0 1654435115740 Sync.AddonsReconciler INFO Registering as Add-on Manager listener. 1654435115740 Sync.AddonsReconciler DEBUG Adding change listener. 1654435115741 Sync.Engine.History.Tracker INFO Adding Places observer. 1654435115751 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG FxAccountsProfileClient: Initialized 1654435115752 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG FxAccountsProfileClient: Requested profile 1654435115752 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG getOAuthToken enter 1654435115753 FirefoxAccounts TRACE getCachedToken returning cached token 1654435115753 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG getOAuthToken returning a cached token 1654435115754 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG GET request to https://profile.accounts.firefox.com/v1/profile 1654435115764 FirefoxAccounts INFO fetching updated device list 1654435115776 Sync.Service DEBUG User-Agent: Firefox/101.0 (Linux x86_64) FxSync/1.103.0.20220530192118.desktop 1654435115777 Sync.Service INFO Starting sync at 2022-06-05 15:18:35 in browser session rSwzzIoqCLB3 1654435115777 Sync.Service DEBUG In sync: should login. 1654435115777 Sync.Service INFO User logged in successfully - verifying login. 1654435115779 Sync.SyncAuthManager DEBUG unlockAndVerifyAuthState already has (or can fetch) sync keys 1654435115779 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.login: success.login => success.status_ok 1654435115780 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.service: success.status_ok => error.login.failed 1654435115780 Sync.Service DEBUG Fetching unlocked auth state returned success.status_ok 1654435115780 Sync.SyncAuthManager INFO Getting sync key 1654435115781 Sync.SyncAuthManager INFO Getting a sync token from: https://sync.joelmueller.ch/1.0/sync/1.5 1654435115781 Sync.SyncAuthManager DEBUG Getting a token using OAuth 1654435115781 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG getOAuthToken enter 1654435115781 FirefoxAccounts TRACE getCachedToken returning cached token 1654435115781 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG getOAuthToken returning a cached token 1654435115782 Services.Common.TokenServerClient DEBUG Beginning OAuth token exchange: https://sync.joelmueller.ch/1.0/sync/1.5 1654435115782 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG GET request to https://sync.joelmueller.ch/1.0/sync/1.5 1654435115798 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG GET request to https://api.accounts.firefox.com/v1/account/devices 1654435115878 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG GET https://sync.joelmueller.ch/1.0/sync/1.5 200 1654435115878 Services.Common.TokenServerClient DEBUG Got token response: 200 1654435115878 Services.Common.TokenServerClient DEBUG Successful token response 1654435115879 Sync.BulkKeyBundle INFO BulkKeyBundle being created for undefined 1654435115879 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.login: success.status_ok => success.login 1654435115879 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.service: error.login.failed => success.status_ok 1654435115880 Sync.SyncAuthManager DEBUG _findCluster returning https://sync.joelmueller.ch/1.5/4/ 1654435115880 Sync.SyncAuthManager DEBUG Cluster value = https://sync.joelmueller.ch/1.5/4/ 1654435115880 Sync.SyncAuthManager DEBUG Setting cluster to https://sync.joelmueller.ch/1.5/4/ 1654435115880 Sync.Service DEBUG Caching URLs under storage user base: https://sync.joelmueller.ch/1.5/4/ 1654435115882 FirefoxAccounts INFO Already fetching device list, return existing promise 1654435115987 Sync.Resource DEBUG GET fail 401 https://sync.joelmueller.ch/1.5/4/info/collections 1654435115987 Sync.Resource WARN GET request to https://sync.joelmueller.ch/1.5/4/info/collections failed with status 401 1654435115987 Sync.Service WARN 401: login failed. 1654435115987 Sync.SyncAuthManager DEBUG _findCluster has a pre-existing clusterURL, so fetching a new token token 1654435115987 Sync.SyncAuthManager INFO Getting sync key 1654435115988 Sync.SyncAuthManager INFO Getting a sync token from: https://sync.joelmueller.ch/1.0/sync/1.5 1654435115988 Sync.SyncAuthManager DEBUG Getting a token using OAuth 1654435115988 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG getOAuthToken enter 1654435115988 FirefoxAccounts TRACE getCachedToken returning cached token 1654435115988 FirefoxAccounts DEBUG getOAuthToken returning a cached token 1654435115988 Services.Common.TokenServerClient DEBUG Beginning OAuth token exchange: https://sync.joelmueller.ch/1.0/sync/1.5 1654435115988 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG GET request to https://sync.joelmueller.ch/1.0/sync/1.5 1654435116004 Services.Common.RESTRequest DEBUG GET https://sync.joelmueller.ch/1.0/sync/1.5 200 1654435116004 Services.Common.TokenServerClient DEBUG Got token response: 200 1654435116005 Services.Common.TokenServerClient DEBUG Successful token response 1654435116005 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.login: success.login => success.login 1654435116005 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.service: success.status_ok => success.status_ok 1654435116005 Sync.SyncAuthManager DEBUG _findCluster returning https://sync.joelmueller.ch/1.5/4/ 1654435116005 Sync.SyncAuthManager DEBUG Cluster value = https://sync.joelmueller.ch/1.5/4/ 1654435116005 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.login: success.login => error.login.reason.network 1654435116005 Sync.Status DEBUG Status.service: success.status_ok => error.login.failed 1654435116006 Sync.ErrorHandler ERROR Sync encountered a login error 1654435116006 Sync.SyncScheduler DEBUG Clearing sync triggers and the global score. 1654435116007 Sync.SyncScheduler DEBUG Next sync in 3600000 ms. (why=schedule) 1654435116007 Sync.Service DEBUG Exception calling WrappedLock: Error: Login failed: error.login.reason.network(resource://services-sync/service.js:1037:15) JS Stack trace: onNotify@service.js:1037:15 1654435116008 Sync.Service DEBUG Not syncing: login returned false. 1654435116009 FirefoxAccounts INFO Already fetching device list, return existing promise 1654435116010 FirefoxAccounts INFO Already fetching device list, return existing promise 1654435116260 FirefoxAccounts INFO Already fetching device list, return existing promise

My firefox-syncstroage.toml looks like this

1. Example MySQL DSN:

database_url = "mysql://firefox:XXX@localhost/syncstorage_rs"

1. Example Spanner DSN:
2. database_url="spanner://projects/SAMPLE_GCP_PROJECT/instances/SAMPLE_SPANNER_INSTANCE/databases/SAMPLE_SPANNER_DB"

"limits.max_total_records"=1666 # See issues #298/#333 master_secret = "TOKEN"

1. removing this line will default to moz_json formatted logs (which is preferred for production envs)

human_logs = 1

1. enable quota limits

enable_quota = 0

1. set the quota limit to 2GB.
2. max_quota_limit = 200000000

1. Example Tokenserver settings:

disable_syncstorage = false tokenserver.database_url = "mysql://firefox:XXX@localhost/syncstorage_rs" tokenserver.enabled = true tokenserver.fxa_email_domain = "api.accounts.firefox.com" tokenserver.fxa_oauth_server_url = "https://oauth.accounts.firefox.com/v1" tokenserver.fxa_metrics_hash_secret = "TOKEN" tokenserver.test_mode_enabled = false

1. cors settings

cors_allowed_origin = "localhost" cors_max_age = 86400