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Re: Firefox Sync actually works

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stavros wrote: post #28
gausswho wrote: post #18

I've avoided FF sync because I don't want my browser history on the cloud. I only really want my profile configuration, such as my addons and userjs flags. Unfortunately the FF directory in my .config is intermixed enough between config and content that I don't try to back it up. Am I missing something?

The sync contents are encrypted between devices. EDIT: After writing this, I realized I should investigate the claim, because new devices are added just by logging in, not by giving them any sort of password.

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Re: Firefox Sync actually works

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Post by jcpst »

herdcall wrote: post #8

Yes, 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 sh…

This just happened to me too. Checked my linux machine and they were there. Backed em up.

What the heck

Re: Firefox Sync actually works

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Post by pivo »

salil999 wrote: post #49

If you're in the Apple ecosystem then Safari has had this for a while.

Something that's frustrating to me wrt Safari is my, admittedly edge case, in which the company I work for won't allow using personal Apple IDs on company supplied macs. Apple only allow Safari sync to work between computers with the same Apple ID, which I sort of get, but still that makes it useless to me.

This same-Apple-ID restriction causes other issues too, like not being able to use my iPhone as a webcam on my work mac even though I can use my AirPods on that same mac because reasons.

Luckily for me, I'm super happy with Firefox.

Re: Firefox Sync actually works

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Post by byyll »

Chromium crashes for me after running for a while with 10+ tabs. I had more than 500 open in Firefox and it ran well.

Also the ability to add proxies to multi account containers is great when I am trying to access the 3-4 websites that are only available in 1 country or are blocked in the EU. I can even force a certain domain to open in that container so I don't think about it.

Re: Firefox Sync actually works

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Post by cleandreams »

dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #98
yesimahuman wrote: post #50

It’s too bad that Firefox has such a great UX and privacy-focused cloud features like this, yet is being held back by its engine. As a heavy FF user for the last few years it’s become more and more clear that the world just doesn’t care about making sites work on FF and I’m more frequently having to switch to Chrome. My dream is that FF would switch to Chromium while keeping all the great features around the browser…

It's too bad this is always one of the most upvoted comments on every FF thread when it just doesn't reflect reality.. been using Firefox for basically it's entire existence and it just works. It's always worked. Never been significantly slower than Chrome, at least to an extent that it matters, and now it's not slower at all. I don't have Chrome installed on my computer since everything works. What parallel reality…

My experience also. Whenever a site doesn't work I try it in chrome and bing -- and it doesn't work there also.

Re: Firefox Sync actually works

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Post by huggingmouth »

robinhood wrote: post #71
yesimahuman wrote: post #50

It’s too bad that Firefox has such a great UX and privacy-focused cloud features like this, yet is being held back by its engine. As a heavy FF user for the last few years it’s become more and more clear that the world just doesn’t care about making sites work on FF and I’m more frequently having to switch to Chrome. My dream is that FF would switch to Chromium while keeping all the great features around the browser…

I have the exact opposite experience. I've been using FF for a very, very long time, and I have yet to encounter a site that doesn't work on it. Also, what modern web APIs Firefox doesn't support?

It's missing webnfc support which means it's not an option for our web based inventory tracking system.

Re: Firefox Sync actually works

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Post by spinningarrow »

barkerja wrote: post #58

For all its issues, I wouldn’t say iCloud syncing is one of them for Safari. I’ve had nothing but a good experience over the past couple years when it comes to syncing tabs, bookmarks and passwords.

I have the opposite experience. Sometimes I see tabs from some of my devices, sometimes all of them, sometimes a few of the tabs and sometimes all of them. If I want to “hand off” browsing to another device I pretty much always have to use AirDrop.
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