1264834 - Firefox Sync doesn't sync bookmark tags

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 775672

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Android Sync, defect)

Description

[Mocambo]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:43.0) Gecko/43.0 Firefox/43.0
Build ID: 20160315170748
Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

Adding different new bookmarks with tags on both desktop Firefox and Firefox for Android.


Actual results:

Tags added with desktoo Firefox are not visible on Firefox for Android
Tags added with Firefox for Android are not visible on desktoo Firefox
Bookmarks itself are synced and visible but without tags. Tags box is empty.
Tags are visible only on device they were entered.


Expected results:

Bookmarks should be synced with tags and are visible and usable on all synced devices.

Comment 1

[Lina Butler (ex-Mozilla)]

Hmm, I thought Android only supported keywords, not tags? I also didn't think Android 43 supported editing bookmarks; full bookmark management only landed in 58-60...

Android will round-trip tags (at least, if I'm reading https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/f30847c12e5fb13791401ed4330ced3e1b9c8d81/mobile/android/services/src/main/java/org/mozilla/gecko/sync/repositories/android/BookmarksSessionHelper.java#916 correctly), but I didn't think there was UI for creating or editing them. Today I learned! :-)

Oana, would you mind posting more detailed STR, please? Thanks!

Comment 2

[Oana Horvath [:ohorvath - out of office]]

That's right, on Android there are keywords and on desktop there are tags.

STR:
1. Create a bookmark on one Android device, edit and add a keyword.
2. Create a bookmark on desktop and add a tag.
3. Login with a sync account and sync the 2 devices. 
4. Also login on a 2nd Android device and sync.
5. Verify the tags/keywords on each. On Android, long tap the bookmark and select Edit to see the keywords.

Results:
The desktop tags are only visible on the desktop browser. 
The Android keywords are only visible on the device they were created on. However, they work on any device/platform if you use them as a shortcut to open a bookmark.

Hope this helps.

Comment 3

[Lina Butler (ex-Mozilla)]

Cool, thanks, that's helpful! I think this is a dupe of bug 775672, then. Tags are synced around, but there's no UI for seeing or editing them on Android.