Closed Bug 1564599 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Sync devices does not show Firefox Preview

Categories

(Cloud Services :: Server: Firefox Accounts, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: lars.jellema, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0

Steps to reproduce:

I created a Firefox Sync account on my laptop using Firefox 67.0.4, then installed Firefox Preview on my phone. I did not have Firefox installed on my phone before this. I connected Firefox preview to my Sync account by scanning a pairing code. History and bookmarks were properly synced.

Actual results:

Several minutes later, I got an email that I have yet to connect another device. My laptop does not show any devices I can send tabs to. https://accounts.firefox.com/settings/clients shows two devices: The one corresponding to my laptop and one called "Firefox Sync" which was last active 10 hours ago. I successfully synced several times in the last hour from my phone.

Expected results:

I expect my phone to show up correctly in the list of devices at the URL mentioned above and I expect to be able to send tabs to it from Firefox running on my laptop. I find it a little worrying that devices can sync with my account without showing up. I expect any device that has recently synced to show up.

Thanks for the report! There are a couple of things to tease apart here.

Several minutes later, I got an email that I have yet to connect another device.

This seems unexpected, and I wonder if it was a bit of a race between our email-sending logic and your adding of a second device. + :lniolet for context.

I expect my phone to show up correctly in the list of devices at the URL mentioned above
[...]
I find it a little worrying that devices can sync with my account without showing up

Yes, absolutely. This is fixed in https://github.com/mozilla/fxa/pull/1262 but not yet reported to production, but should be available soon.

I expect to be able to send tabs to it from Firefox running on my laptop

I believe this is available in the current development version of Firefox Preview but was not yet stable enough for release, so again, should be available soon. +:grisha for any further comment.

Component: General → Server: Firefox Accounts

https://github.com/mozilla/fxa/pull/1262 has been deployed and Send-Tab should be landing in Fenix soon, so I don't think there's anything else for us to track in this bug. Closing, thanks again for the report!

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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