1246226 - Password cannot sync from Firefox desktop to Firefox Android

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 711636

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Guo Yunhe]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0
Build ID: 2016012300
Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

I have my Firefox desktop and Firefox for Android. I sign in Firefox account on both devices. 


Actual results:

Bookmarks and tabs sync are very good. But I found password cannot be synced from desktop to Android.

Then I log out on both devices. Log in to Firefox desktop, start again. It seems use a lot of time to sync. Then log in to Firefox for Android. It is now syncing most passwords. But a few of passwords still cannot be sync to Android.

Comment 1

[Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly]]

If you enter "about:sync-log" in the address bar in your desktop browser, does it show any error logs?  If so, please attach the latest error log to this bug and we can take a look for any password-related errors in there.

Comment 2

[Guo Yunhe]

Attachment: error-sync-1454491888440.txt.tar.gz

Comment 3

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

These error logs seem to just show network errors (NS_ERROR_UNKNOWN_HOST) talking to our auth server - but this would prevent *anything* from syncing and is probably just reflecting a few attempts to Sync before the network was available. I can't see anything that would explain some passwords not syncing.

Comment 4

[Guo Yunhe]

I solved this problem on my computer and smart phone by disabling master password, log out, login again on both devices. Do not know if it is something related to master password.

Comment 5

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

It sounds like this might be the fact that Android and Sync don't work well together when a master password is enabled, so I'll dupe to that bug.