Closed Bug 1538321 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Support iCloud bookmarks on macOS

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Bookmarks & History
Platform:
Unspecified
macOS
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: markus.koelzer, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 12_1_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Steps to reproduce:

I wish Firefox on macOS would support iCloud bookmarks. Hence Apple provides the extension only for Windows it would be a great opportunity for Firefox to provide built-in Support.

Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Untriaged → Bookmarks & History
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Unspecified → macOS

Hi! Apple's iCloud bookmarks extension talks to a private helper (presumably bundled with iCloud for Windows) using native messaging. Poking around some more, iCloud apparently uses a custom protocol that's neither standardized nor documented, so we'd be on the hook for any breakages. Short of reverse-engineering their helper and protocol, I don't think there's a way we can support that. The closest we can do is import bookmarks from Safari, and sync them using Firefox Sync.

So this is a WONTFIX, but thanks for taking the time to file the issue!

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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