1257654 - "Features of the SeaMonkey® Suite" Mentions "Sync" as Feature

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Website, defect)

Description

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Sync hasn't been working correctly for a long time (no way to create new account with current SM versions), and Sync. 1 Service has been dropped by Mozilla September 2015. 

Sync should not be listed as a SeaMonkey feature.

BTW: is "Venkman" really still the current Javascript Debugger?

Comment 1

[Philip Chee]

(In reply to Rainer Bielefeld from comment #0)
> Sync hasn't been working correctly for a long time (no way to create new
> account with current SM versions), and Sync. 1 Service has been dropped by
> Mozilla September 2015.
> 
> Sync should not be listed as a SeaMonkey feature.

We should remove this. Or point to the Pale Moon Sync 1.1 server. Of course this won't be suitable for people who want to sync with Firefox.

> BTW: is "Venkman" really still the current Javascript Debugger?
No. It's dead Jim. Will be replaced by the Firefox DevTools.

Comment 2

[Rainer Bielefeld]

(In reply to Philip Chee from comment #1)
> Or point to the Pale Moon Sync 1.1 server. Of course
> this won't be suitable for people who want to sync with Firefox.

Someone found an obstacle:
<https://unofficialseamonkeynews.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/sync/comment-page-1/#comment-5>
I will check that later.

Comment 3

[Isaac Schemm]

Seems to be bug 998807.

Comment 4

[Rainer Bielefeld]

(In reply to Isaac Schemm from comment #3)
> Seems to be bug 998807.

Not at all. "Bug 998807 - Sync account creation or device pairing fails with exception in BrowserIDManager" is concerning a problem with Sync itself, this one is concerning SeaMonkey project website contents

Comment 5

[Isaac Schemm]

(In reply to Rainer Bielefeld from comment #4)
> (In reply to Isaac Schemm from comment #3)
> > Seems to be bug 998807.
> 
> Not at all. "Bug 998807 - Sync account creation or device pairing fails with
> exception in BrowserIDManager" is concerning a problem with Sync itself,
> this one is concerning SeaMonkey project website contents

You're correct. The problem I reported on the blog shows the same symptom as bug 998807, but this bug is different.

Comment 6

[Philip Chee]

Firefox Accounts (Sync v2) is large and has many moving parts and probably not suitable for SeaMonkey. We may want to set up our own Sync 1.1 server like Pale Moon.

Comment 7

[Robert Kaiser]

(In reply to Philip Chee from comment #6)
> Firefox Accounts (Sync v2) is large and has many moving parts and probably
> not suitable for SeaMonkey. We may want to set up our own Sync 1.1 server
> like Pale Moon.

I'm surprised and confused by this statement. From all I know, we have permission to use the official Firefox Accounts and Sync servers, and FxA and current Sync is actually less complex than Sync 1.1 is overall.

Comment 8

[Robert Kaiser]

And FWIW, the ability to Sync with Firefox for Android and iOS would be a really good feature, but if we'd run Sync 1.1 that would not work.

Comment 9

[Nuno Silva [:njsg]]

Attachment: 1257654-comment-out-sync [Checked in: Comment 12]

A patch to hide Sync until it works out of the box.

Comment 10

[Ian Neal]

Comment on attachment 9167043 [details] [diff] [review]
1257654-comment-out-sync [Checked in: Comment 12]

>+++ b/src/doc/features.en.html
>+  <!-- Commented out, as currently Sync does not work without workarounds -->
>+  <!--
>   <p><strong>Sync</strong> allows you to keep your browsing history, passwords,
>     bookmarks, preferences and tabs in sync across different devices (computers)
>     in a secure way.</p>
>+  -->
You could probably just start with:
<!-- Commented out, as currently Sync does not work without workarounds
then you wouldn't need the second <!--

r/a=me either route

Comment 11

[Ian Neal]

Comment on attachment 9167043 [details] [diff] [review]
1257654-comment-out-sync [Checked in: Comment 12]

Oops, a=me not needed for website

Comment 12

[Ian Neal]

Comment on attachment 9167043 [details] [diff] [review]
1257654-comment-out-sync [Checked in: Comment 12]

https://hg.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey/seamonkey-project-org/rev/ae8b73dc8200aed5fdb3c62d0e300829ab880b0a
https://gitlab.com/seamonkey-project/website/-/commit/826285cafaf9376dd967d9a6dbc1a562296ebd0b