589630 - in the firefox sync setup when you enter an username i get an "unknown error" when i go to another tab if you selected never used sync before

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Cloud Services :: General, defect)

Description

[Alfatango109]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100822 Minefield/4.0b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100822 Minefield/4.0b5pre

Just installed Firefox 4.0b and i wanted to configure the new feature "Firefox sync" but when i get into the setup and wanted to create a new user, but i get the message under the user name box "unknown error" when ever i write something in there and press tab (or mouse click to the next box "password").

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start Firefox 
2.click on the tho arrows in the right corner bottom
3.select the first option and fill in the user name box and press Tab to go to the next box
Actual Results:  
i was unable to create an account

Expected Results:  
create an account and sync Firefox whit the server

its annoying

Comment 1

[Thomas]

Hello Alfatango109, *,
I can confirm this with Firefox 4.0b4 under Debian SID/Experimental AMD64 as well ... :( So I am not able to register to use Sync ... :(

Comment 2

[Alfatango109]

Well it is a "Beta" program at the best its more like an Alfa to me but  i guess the tehnicians just put it there whithout any change.

However i have no douth that they will fix it in time for the big firefox 4.0 launch:).

Comment 3

[Thomas]

Hello Alfatango109,
(In reply to comment #2)
> Well it is a "Beta" program at the best its more like an Alfa to me but  i
> guess the tehnicians just put it there whithout any change.

do you mean Firefox or Sync? If you mean firefox, I have tested it with Iceweasel (a.k.a. Firefox) 3.6.8 under Debian SID/Experimental AMD64 and the Sync addon 1.4.4, and am still not able to create an account ... :(

> However i have no douth that they will fix it in time for the big firefox 4.0
> launch:).

I too :) Sync sounds interesting for me, but as of now it is not usable at all ... :(
Have a nice evening
Thomas.
P.S.: Are you in a position to change the status and the platform? It would be nice, if it could reflect my observation/additional comments as well ... ;)

Comment 4

[Alfatango109]

> do you mean Firefox or Sync? If you mean firefox, I have tested it with
> Iceweasel (a.k.a. Firefox) 3.6.8 under Debian SID/Experimental AMD64 and the
> Sync addon 1.4.4, and am still not able to create an account ... :(

As far as i can tell this bug is on the Weave program (the sync addon) and therefor on all platforms.

Comment 5

[Thomas]

Good morning Alfatango109,

(In reply to comment #4)
> > do you mean Firefox or Sync? If you mean firefox, I have tested it with
> > Iceweasel (a.k.a. Firefox) 3.6.8 under Debian SID/Experimental AMD64 and the
> > Sync addon 1.4.4, and am still not able to create an account ... :(
> 
> As far as i can tell this bug is on the Weave program (the sync addon) and
> therefor on all platforms.

ah, O.K. Thanks for the clarification :)
I have done a little further testing:
1. If I use Sync setup and choose "I am already using Sync on another Computer" (roughly translated from German ... ;) ), enter my wished username and password there, I get the message - again roughly translated ... ;) - "Couldn't connect to server" ... :( So, maybe there is a connection problem as well, when you want to create an account?
2. I have tested it with Sync 1.5b1, where this issue still exists ... :(
HTH
Thomas.
P.S.: Thanks for changing the platform :)

Comment 6

[Alex Lakatos[:AlexLakatos]]

Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b10pre) Gecko/20110113 Firefox/4.0b10pre

I can not reproduce this issue.

Comment 7

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Can no longer be reproduced, I suspect this was long since fixed.