Firefox Sync actually works
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Firefox Sync actually works
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#2(Sorry for title editing; HN cuts of "The Best" if a title starts with that, which would make for a rather nonsensical title...)
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#3This! I set up everyone in my family with Firefox because of sync that just works.
I prefer reading content, especially PDFs, on my computer over my phone. One useful feature Firefox has is the ability to just send a tab to a device. When I am out and about, I would queue up reading papers by sending them from my phone to my computer. When I get home, my browser would have the tabs right there, ready for me to read.
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#4I'm not convinced. Recently moved to a new computer and firefox didn't sync my settings in about:config and didn't sync my container assignments (had to go in and enable it manually in both the source and target computers, buried deep in the settings for the containers extension). It doesn't sync addons or addon settings. I don't think it synced all the interface customization (like removing pocket icon from the url bar, separate urlbar/search box), only some of it. I got my bookmarks, so that was helpful. To sync a lot of other stuff I was able to copy my prefs.js from the old to the new, and most of those settings worked.
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#5It can be a pain when you do large random deletes from browsing history, then sync can hang up for 20 minutes with lot of IO/Cpu. You can trigger this by doing "Forget this website" and if that website is a lot in your history
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#6Heh. Sync works on chrome too. IMO tree style tabs was the best thing firefox had and they killed it.
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#7Firefox has grown on me since Google's war on ad blockers made me feel like it's "their" browser not mine.
(Which is true ofc. But still.)
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#8Yes, it just works; but a few days back all my devices suddenly lost almost all of the passwords. Not all but most of them, couldn't make out any pattern or reason. Luckily a Linux laptop that I don't usually use had the full set and I had to export them, sync, and import them back to restore everywhere. Very scary, any ideas why this could've happened? I immediately backed up for the future, but this kind of loss should not be happening.
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#9Heh. Sync works on chrome too. IMO tree style tabs was the best thing firefox had and they killed it.
Does it only count if it's native rather than an extension?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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#10Heh. Sync works on chrome too. IMO tree style tabs was the best thing firefox had and they killed it.
What do you mean killed it? I use a different addon for vertical tabs (there are many now) but isn't it still available?