Question: Can Sync History Become Full?
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(Firefox :: Sync, defect)
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(Reporter: afrazo, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0
Steps to reproduce:
Apologies if this isn't the right place, but I did make an effort to find somewhere to ask this.
I have seceral computers, and two mobile devices. They're all running the latest stable Firefox, and all logged in for syncing. For a few months now, I've been having to re-log in to (nearly?) all of the sites I use, when I switch devices. At first, I thought it was a new session invalidation policy by service-x, but I've noticed that it seems to be for any site, and it started happening for them all around the same time.
Is it possible that my account has so much history stored, that it can no longer hold new session data in sync properly, in such a way that sessions become invalidated on switching devices? I don't see anything to suggest this in the sync logs, but I've attached the latest one anyway.
Actual results:
Sessions are invalidated when switching devices, making it necessary to re-login to most websites. This does not happen every single time, and maybe not for every single website.
Expected results:
Sessions should stay valid as long as they are not invalidated by the website.
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Comment 1•3 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Sync' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 2•3 years ago
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This will not be caused by sync. The error log you attached has a temporary network error reaching the sync servers, so is almost certainly unrelated.
Indeed, Sync typically doesn't sync anything related to your sessions - whether you are logged into a site or not is typically stored in cookies or local storage etc, and these aren't synced. So if you are finding this problem in all of your devices then I can't explain it at all, but if you are having this problem mainly on one device then it could be that the profile is broken in some obscure way (eg, a corrupt cookie store etc), so you might be best off deleting that profile entirely and creating a new one, letting Sync bring your important data across. Sadly, doing a "profile refresh" might bring the problem along, so I'd advise against that. https://support.mozilla.org is a good resource if you need more help doing this.
(In reply to Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond] from comment #2)
This will not be caused by sync. The error log you attached has a temporary network error reaching the sync servers, so is almost certainly unrelated.
Indeed, Sync typically doesn't sync anything related to your sessions - whether you are logged into a site or not is typically stored in cookies or local storage etc, and these aren't synced. So if you are finding this problem in all of your devices then I can't explain it at all, but if you are having this problem mainly on one device then it could be that the profile is broken in some obscure way (eg, a corrupt cookie store etc), so you might be best off deleting that profile entirely and creating a new one, letting Sync bring your important data across. Sadly, doing a "profile refresh" might bring the problem along, so I'd advise against that. https://support.mozilla.org is a good resource if you need more help doing this.
Yup, fair enough. I was hoping to try everything I could before I tried deleting the profile, but I guess that's the next step.
Thanks.
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