1578203 - Problematic interations between sync and icloud-bookmarks extension

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Sync, defect, P3)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

I use Firefox with windows 10 on laptop and pc and safari on macbook pro and iphone. Firefox creates double bookmarks during synchronization. Sometimes 20 or more the same.

Actual results:

I use Firefox with windows 10 on laptop and pc and safari on macbook pro and iphone. Firefox creates double bookmarks during synchronization. Sometimes 20 or more the same.

Expected results:

All bookmarks that I have made or are about to make should only appear once.

Comment 1

[Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly]]

safari on macbook pro and iphone

Do you have something set up that synchronizes your Firefox bookmarks to Safari on these devices?

Comment 2

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Ad-don =
iCloud-bladwijzers
U kunt uw Firefox-bladwijzers in Windows synchroon houden met de Safari-bladwijzers op uw iPhone, iPad en Mac.

Comment 3

[Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly]]

Thanks! If I understand correctly this corresponds to the following addon:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/icloud-bookmarks/

So I suspect there may be some bad interaction between that addon and the builtin Firefox Sync.

Comment 4

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

Having multiple sync systems trying to work with the same set of bookmarks is always going to be problematic - both assume they "own" the data and probably aren't expecting something else to be doing "strange" things to it. This probably isn't really actionable by us other than maybe refusing to sync when we detect incompatible addons.

Veld, why do you use both? Why not just rely on icloud-bookmarks to sync with Firefox?

Comment 5

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Geen idee hoe alles werkt. Het ging altijd goed tot enkele maanden geleden.
Om iCloud Bookmarks in Firefox aan te zetten word ik door firefox doorgelinkt naar naar icloud om daar aan te geven dat ik dat ik synchronisatie toesta maar ik heb echt geen idee hoe alles werkt en waarom firefox de bladwijzezers er dubbel inzet.

Comment 6

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

Google translates comment 5 as:

No idea how everything works. It always went well until a few months ago.
To enable iCloud Bookmarks in Firefox, firefox redirects me to icloud to indicate that I allow synchronization, but I really have no idea how everything works and why firefox uses the bookmarks twice.

I don't think there's much we can do here? But I also don't think we should close it because it's probably an ongoing issue for a number of users.

Comment 7

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OK bedankt voor de tijd en moeite.