Closed Bug 1519643 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Default bookmarks should not be recreated and re-synced

Categories

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Sync
Version:
66 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1177516

People

(Reporter: tukusejssirs, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Steps to reproduce:

(1) In Firefox on device A, delete Mozilla Firefox folder from bookmarks.

(2) On device A, sign into Firefox Sync.

(3) Install Firefox on device B (where there was installed yet or the Firefox user data was deleted).

(4) On device B, sign into Firefox Sync.

Actual results:

(5) Check (on either device) the bookmarks: the Mozilla Firefox folder is there again, as it was synced from the device B.

(6) If you repeat this process on multiple devices, you will end you will end up with multiple Mozilla Firefox folders in bookmarks.

Expected results:

In my opinion, the default bookmarks, if they were deleted and synced, should not be re-synced when a new device was added.

Component: Untriaged → Sync

Yep. :-/ Default bookmarks are tricky; bug 1177516 (and its dependencies) has more details. We'll probably end up fixing this by making default bookmarks virtual, as I think Firefox for iOS does, so that they're not synced at all. Thanks!

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE

Sorry for creating duplicate bug report—with the zillion bug reports at bugzilla it’s quite easy miss a report of the same bug. :)

No worries at all, thanks for taking the time to file the bug! :-)

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