1302610 - Firefox Sync should sync addon-specific state

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Botond Ballo [:botond]]

It's nice that Firefox Sync can sync add-ons.

However, many add-ons can store preferences and other state, and it would be good if this could be synced too.

Some examples: Multifox profiles, ChatZilla channel lists, Stylish styles.

Of course, this requires cooperation from the addons as well. But Firefox should provide  relevant APIs for addons to implement, such as "serialize your preferences/state into a format that can be stored in the Sync database", and "load preferences/state from such a format".

Comment 1

[Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly]]

IIUC, this is more-or-less the problem that Bug 1220494 proposes to solve.

Comment 2

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

(In reply to Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly] from comment #1)
> IIUC, this is more-or-less the problem that Bug 1220494 proposes to solve.

I came here to say exactly the same thing :)