Firefox sync shouldn't make me crazy, should it?

March 6, 2017 6:03 AM

And yet it does. Syncing bookmarks from my PC to my new Android phone is completely impossible. I've tried everything on the Mozilla help pages and everything I could think of myself, including deleting my Firefox account and reistalling Firefox on the computer and the phone. AskMefi to the rescue!

What else should I do?

My phone has the latest version of Android 7. My PC is running Windows 7.

posted by Termite to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Best answer: Are you sure you have both devices connected to the same sync account? I made that mistake once and spent weeks wondering sync didn't work before finally realizing both devices were syncing, just not to each other.
posted by COD at 6:16 AM on March 6, 2017

I was very annoyed and confused at first but then I just ignored the problem for a few days and it started working fine. I think it must have been some combination of logging in/out on the different devices and also maybe it does take a bit of time for it to decide to push/pull/sync the data.
posted by SaltySalticid at 6:39 AM on March 6, 2017

Response by poster: "Are you sure you have both devices connected to the same sync account? I made that mistake once and spent weeks wondering sync didn't work before finally realizing both devices were syncing, just not to each other."

Good suggestion. I deleted the sync account and made a new one with a different password and now the computer and the phone are definitely connected to the same account.

And BAM -- there they are, all the bookmarks! Thanks very much! Case closed.
posted by Termite at 7:29 AM on March 6, 2017 [2 favorites]