1934317 - Firefox mobile doesn't sync deleted passwords from desktop

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox for Android :: Accounts and Sync, defect, P3)

Description

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Attachment: 4 screenshots showing the issue

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0
Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

1. Have Firefox Android app and Firefox desktop app installed.
2. Have a Mozilla account signed in and with synced passwords enabled on both devices.
3. Have a saved account/password entry.
4. Delete the account/password entry on Firefox desktop.
5. Sync both devices.

Actual results:

The deleted password isn't deleted on Firefox Android after sync.

Expected results:

The deleted password should be deleted on Firefox Android when the account is synced.

The user expect the password to be deleted. If bad actors access to user's mobile device>firefox passwords, they can access to the supposed deleted password.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This doesn't need to be hidden, which makes it available to more team members

Comment 2

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(In reply to Daniel Veditz [:dveditz] from comment #1)

This doesn't need to be hidden, which makes it available to more team members

Ok! How to change that? I can't find the option to change it now.

Comment 3

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Attachment: desktop - deleted entry.png

Comment 4

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Attachment: desktop - synced passwords.png

Comment 5

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Attachment: mobile - synced passwords.png

Comment 6

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Attachment: mobile - synced passwords.png

Comment 7

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Attachment: mobile - deleted password still appearing.png

Comment 8

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Update: I've attached the 4 screenshots as separate files for easier access. The initial bug report form allowed only one attachment, so I had originally uploaded a ZIP file as a workaround.

Comment 9

[[:anutrix]]

Issue is still reproduced on latest Firefox 140(Windows and Android).

Comment 10

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

Unfortunately I can't reproduce this. Does password syncing otherwise appear to be working (ie, do changes to existing passwords or new passwords get reflected on the mobile device)?

Comment 11

[[:anutrix]]

(In reply to Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond] from comment #10)

Unfortunately I can't reproduce this. Does password syncing otherwise appear to be working (ie, do changes to existing passwords or new passwords get reflected on the mobile device)?

Last I checked(2 months), yes. Edits and new passwords were synced but deleted passwords were not deleted on the phone.

Additionally, I still have about 1000+ passwords(old passwords from internal/private IP/domains) I can't delete on my phone because for each entry I need click 4 buttons on the phone:

1. Click on password entry.
2. Click 3 dots.
3. Click delete.
4. Click confirm in the popup.

4 monotonous repeated clicks per entry.

Note that I had deleted all passwords in desktop at once and it was over 2 months ago.

I will try to reproduce again now. I just need to turn on password sync on PC and phone.

Comment 12

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(In reply to Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond] from comment #10)

Unfortunately I can't reproduce this. Does password syncing otherwise appear to be working (ie, do changes to existing passwords or new passwords get reflected on the mobile device)?

Also confirm that the issue still happening to me as I first reported months ago. Just checked my list of passwords on mobile and the dash.cloudflare.com password still there even if I deleted it on my desktop sessions months ago (I didn't manually delete it from mobile just to see if the bug gets fixed).

New added passwords from desktop are synced fine to mobile, what is not working is the sync of the deletion of passwords.

Comment 13

[[:anutrix]]

Just tested on 142 on Android and 142 in Phone. It worked.

Comment 14

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Not sure what fixed. Sry for double comment.