1697780 - general.autoScroll when Sync

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1696518

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Flow]

Attachment: FF.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/86.0

Steps to reproduce:

Hello and first of all, thank you for Firefox !!
I noticed a bug since a year or two.

I use FF on Linux and on Windows, everywhere synced with the same account.
If I change something all the settings are synced everywhere and it's great, but something happens to "general.autoScroll".

The problem is this, if I open Settings on Windows FF and close(without doing anything), when I open Linux FF the "general.autoScroll" setting is set to OFF.
Somehow in the syncing procces the autoscroll for Linux FF keeps switching off.
And it's got to be in the syncing process, because I installed FF on a LOT of systems during this years(because of OS installations) and only when I toggle something(anything) in Options->General this happens.
It's not such a problem but it's really frustrating, everytime I get an update, I have to toggle back ON the auto scrolling on Linux.

Don't know if it matters, also mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y is set to 200.

Actual results:

Linux FF ==> Options -> General -> "Use autoscrolling" - keeps toggling off

Expected results:

Autoscrolling to stay on on Windows and Linux versions of Firefox.

Comment 1

[Flow]

Windows used version : 10
Linux : Linux Mint Cinnamon

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Sync' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 3

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

Thanks very much for the report. We are tracking this issue in bug 1696518.