Forum Bashkësie Firefox për iOS

Please, excuse my english - I am of south german origin and this system configured for german brings errors after i have written correctly - english -> englisch.

Firefox for iOS on iPhone 12 mini was dying on first touch after every restart. It was heavily used - as single digital device. I was used to have at least one desktop computer with Linux with all possibilties to archive my data (USB, external hard disk, USB-stick) And I missed heavily the former functions to manage, archiving bookmarks. „Fehlerbehebungsmodus“ Error analyzing seemed not to be available with Firefox for iOS despite existing in other variations - at least Firefox for Windows? Could be something other memory problem - temporary files? Smartphones - iPhones - are to me something like a black box not under my control. Only rescue to get around with bloated Firefox seemed a new installation. After I got a hint I tried to update without success. So no other way - new installation. I registrated for Firefox Sync and hoped to get my bookmarks saved. I have read i wouldn‘t lose any data! So what‘s up? I really would prefer to regularly archive my data. But external drives are impossible with iOS - forbidden. So where are my bookmarks?

Desktop browser: no Bookmarks Phone browser: Bookmarks Goal: Sync phone browser Bookmarks to desktop browser Bookmarks. Danger: backup Bookmarks before Sync syncs wrong way and no data wipes data device.

Desktop browser sync prompt is wrong: Menu -> tap Sync and save data -> tap Ready to Scan -> scan desktop Firefox QR code -> Pairing unsuccessful. Try again. OK

Here's the correct steps: Sync your Firefox experience -> tap I already have Firefox for mobile -> tap Continue -> Sync Firefox on your phone or tablet -> open Firefox 144.1 (62735) on phone -> tap Menu (3 dots at bottom) -> tap Settings -> tap Sync Now -> desktop Firefox -> open new Tab -> Bookmarks appear -> right click Import bookmarks from another browser to Firefox -> tap Remove from Toolbar.

See also: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1552007

So bookmark syncing doesn’t really sync, correct? That is, bookmarks you create on a mobile device go to Mobile Bookmarks and those created on a computer go to Desktop Bookmarks? Sheesh, what’s the point? That wasted a lot of my time and energy.