1762825 - cloud sync

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 446444

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[dev]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0

Steps to reproduce:

N/A

Actual results:

Cloud Sync facility for thunderbird connected to Firefox account. When people setup their thunderbird and setup their accounts and all the settings and add-ons. It is quite difficult to reinstall and set it up, or setup on another computer. If there is a cloud sync, it will make everything very easy to use. It can for sure be optional, but having this will be great.
Cloud sync can be connected to the Firefox account.

Expected results:

N/A

Comment 1

[Andre Klapper]

Hi, please read https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=bug-writing.html and create a bug report with a way better and useful description. Nebulous vague "cloud sync" requests don't help. Specific problem descriptions help. Thanks!

Comment 2

[dev]

Sure, thanks. I was not able to search the format.

Comment 3

[dev]

This is not a bug, but an enhancement request. I will try to put my request in points for easier understanding.

The feature request reason:

1. Firefox account sync accessibility for Thunderbird. Firefox has Firefox account for syncing all the setting, password, add-ons, account, and everything else.
2. Thunderbird, when installed again or installed on a new system, is like starting from scratch.
3. All the add-ons, calendar, settings, account logins, passwords, PGP keys, and theme are to be installed and setup from scratch.

Feature Request:

1. The feature of syncing settings, accounts, add-ons, theme, and any other settings that has been applied in one thunderbird account.
2. Like Firefox, Thunderbird can use the Firefox account to sync all the above-mentioned in the cloud.
3. In this manner, the reinstallation/new system installation will not be an issue for the user. It will be quite easy and seamless for users to move around devices.

Please put serious thought to this, I understand there might be a workaround to import the same profile, but there are problems with it – Does not cover all the things that would make it relevant, also it is inconvenient. If thunderbird is to be used by masses, it should be more and more convenient for the section of society that wants privacy, but wants convenience(most are not technically sound) and can't play with the settings too much.

Comment 4

[dev]

Updated