1527185 - sync does not sync search preferences

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 444284

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Matthew Davis]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Set up firefox sync
2. In preferences > Search > Search Bar, select "Add search bar in toolbar", to separate the URL and search fields into 2 fields
3. Change the default search engine from Google to DDG
4. Add a new device to firefox Sync, wait for it to Sync

Actual results:

The new device has a unified search+url field. The "Add search bar in toolbar" option was not synced.

The default search engine is Google, not DDG. The default search engine was not synced.

Expected results:

The default search engine should be DDG. The search bar should be separated from the URL bar.

The whole point of using Firefox sync and ticking "Sync settings > preferences" is to set up new devices with the preferences I use on my other devices. Currently this is not the case. I have to go tweak these settings manually.

Comment 1

[Lina Butler [:lina]]

Unfortunately, we don't sync any search preferences (including search bar, default search engine, and custom search engines) yet. We've been tracking this over in bug 444284, but don't have a timeline for when we expect to complete that work.