1407727 - firefox sync does not support one-way sync

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Sync, enhancement, P3)

Description

[bugzilla-q]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Build ID: 20170926190823

Steps to reproduce:

set up sync on work firefox and home firefox. Looked for a one-way option. Could not find one.


Actual results:

My browsers synced both ways.


Expected results:

There should be a one-way sync option.

Comment 1

[Lina Butler [:lina]]

Hi! Could you please elaborate on what you mean by "one-way sync?" I'm guessing you'd like an option to only download history, bookmarks, etc., but not upload?

This sounds related to, but not quite the same as, bug 1215415. It would be a very significant architectural change to Sync (we don't currently bucket records by device; in general, Sync records don't know which device they originally came from), so we're unlikely to get to this soon...but it's still worth keeping in mind as an enhancement.

Comment 2

[bugzilla-q]

Howdy!

If I rsync some data from A to B, stuff on A that wasn't on B gets sent over, but nothing from B goes to A. So, like you say, download-only for one side, upload-only for the other side.

This is meant more as a feature request than a bug, since sync doesn't crash or anything like that.

Thanks, and have a nice week.

Comment 3

[Lina Butler [:lina]]

(In reply to bugzilla-q from comment #2)
> If I rsync some data from A to B, stuff on A that wasn't on B gets sent
> over, but nothing from B goes to A. So, like you say, download-only for one
> side, upload-only for the other side.

Gotcha, thanks for the suggestion! CCing Alex, our PM, since this is relevant to our discussions around the future of Sync.