I love Sync!
Except on iOS, where my bookmarks and passwords never actually synch, because it's not really Firefox but a weird skin on Safari because... Apple.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2024
118 points (97.6% liked)
Firefox
3994 readers
83 users here now
A community for discussion about Mozilla Firefox.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I used it accidentally. Now my work PC and my personal laptop have a mishmash of unwanted bookmarks on each
It's a great way to set up Firefox on a new device. Why wouldn't I want to install the same extensions and copy my bookmarks? I wish it also synced toolbar layout so I wouldn't have to remove those weird spacers Firefox adds around the address bar by default every time
Rarely, mostly due to accessing a cool website I found a few days ago on the device I am currently using
No. Not for any good reason though... I just don't need it.
Firstly, I use LibreWolf rather than Firefox. It still has Sync but it's disabled by default and I've just never felt any interest in enabling it.
I use KeepassXC for passwords, so I don't need Firefox to sync those.
I don't use bookmarks. I don't have an amazing memory or whatever I've just always found it more convenient to just search for whatever I'm trying to find, whether that's searching my history or google or whatever. Like how do you organise bookmarks? Trying to categorise pages that I may wish to refer to in the future would drive me nuts. I do use Zotero which is similar to bookmarks but only for academic research.
Even transferring things between devices. That might be nice but seriously I just search for whatever it was I was looking at on whatever other device.
All that remains is addons and themes and honestly it's kinda nice to start with a clean slate on every new desktop and add in themes and addons. Only takes a minute.
I tried it at two separate times, and both times it would delete my tabs when I add a new device to sync. Maybe I used it wrong, but it just aggravated me to disable it quickly.
No, because the set up page for it has never actually loaded for me. Ever
Yes. For many years and couldn't do without it.
Nice try FBI...
I use it cause its convenient.
I use it, but when I experimented with data synchronization using Firefox Sync, it simply doesn't work, it is so unreliable and unpredictable that you can't bet on it. It's a real pity, because I wanted to use it for a cool thing, synchronizing data of one website, without having my own server for that website. It failed because Firefox Sync fails.
yeah of course
No, because I'm a fucking luddite or something.
Thing is, it's pointless to me. I don't need nor want all my devices to have the same configurations, bookmarks and history.
you reinstall your os/get a new pc.
you type in your password and 2fa code.
your stuff magically syncs and all your favorite extensions are already inatalled and synced (including custom filters in uBO)
you type in your password and 2fa code.
I don't. I prefer writing down my passwords on a little notebook. It's ironic as hell that a "coded" paper note at my own home is more secure than anything on my computer
all your favorite extensions are already inatalled and synced (including custom filters in uBO)
I'm vanilla as hell, I just use default uBO and sometimes NoScript. To me, sync offers nothing of value.
Tbf you can selfhost the sync
Why would I want to do that?
I assumed part of the reason was that you didn't trust mozilla
No, I just literally have no usecase for sync
(Not OP) I have no beef with Mozilla, love Firefox.
I once accidentally bookmarked some porn instead of opening it into a new tab. It happened on mobile, it happend fast, I barely noticed. It directly synced to all my devices. Even after removing the bookmark itself, Firefox kept suggesting this "last bookmarked page" on all my devices. Annoying if you alone know about it, disastrous if you don't know who knows about it.
I sync bookmarks, extensions and browsing history. I do not sync autofill or passwords. Credit cards are never saved to anything. I use KeePass for Passwords.
Religiously for more than 5 years now. I have the same things synced accross 4 computers and a phone.
Only on one instance, because I don't want the same bookmarks and set of extensions on every computer. I wish it were more configurable.
Yeah, I mainly use it for the "send tab to device X", love that feature so much!
I used to use that until I noticed that all open tabs for all logged in sessions are easily accessible through the menu or the "Firefox View"
I recommend KDE Connect, it also has this function. :)
But sometimes I use this and sometimes I use that feature.
I use that too thihi
TIL 🤯
I wish this feature would work for me. I can send a tab from firefox on windows or Linux and it won't show up on Firefox for iOS at all, or sometimes it will show up after a long (5+ min) delay.
Hmm that's weird, always worked flawlessly for me, I do also have my devices on the same VPN at all times though, maybe it's that? I also only use Linux and Android.
Likely an iOS issue, I'm sure.
just tested on an iPad I have, works fine :--)
Yes, because it's the only way I can save my phone bookmarks and share it directly with my computer. As a device that I carry with me almost all of the time, there are a lot of sites, articles and etc. that sometimes can't finish to read or explore when on the street or in a meeting with friends or whatever, so I just bookmark them to revisit it later at home from my laptop. Would prefer to export them to a file to avoid the use of a Mozilla account, but it's not possible on Android. At least not that I know of.
view more: next ›