672065 - Sync doesn't sync history

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Elliott]

Attachment: verbose-log.txt

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build ID: 20110615151330

Steps to reproduce:

I hit sync now under tools whenever I leave my desktop and go to my laptop


Actual results:

When I hit sync now on my laptop nothing happens


Expected results:

Links that I viewed on my desktop should also show up as viewed on my laptop.

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Are you choosing "Sync now" on your desktop, then switching to your laptop and choosing "Sync now"? Or are you only performing that action on your laptop?

For which device is this the log?

Are both machines running Firefox 5?

Comment 2

[Elliott]

Mostly my desktop and then to my laptop. It did the same thing when I tried to go from my laptop to the desktop. It was working perfectly until one day it just stopped working.

This log is for my desktop. For some reason there was originally no log so I had to add the value in the config files in order to get firefox to generate logs

Both are running Firefox 5.

Comment 3

[Elliott]

Well now it seems to be working. I didn't do anything to change it. When I left for work it wasn't working but once I got back it worked just fine.

Comment 4

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Mostly my desktop and then to my laptop. It did the same thing when I tried
> to go from my laptop to the desktop. It was working perfectly until one day
> it just stopped working.

My question was: are you choosing "Sync Now" on *both* devices? That is,

• "Oh, I think I'll switch to my laptop".
• On desktop: click "Sync Now", wait for it to finish.
• On laptop: click "Sync Now", wait for it to finish.
• Observe History items.

If you miss one of those two steps, then you'll have to wait for a regular timed sync to occur: Sync will *eventually* get both machines into the same state.

It sounds like that's what's happening. 

> This log is for my desktop. For some reason there was originally no log so I
> had to add the value in the config files in order to get firefox to generate
> logs

Consequently there's no history being uploaded. Nothing seems unusual in the log.

For future reference:

  https://philikon.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/how-to-file-a-good-sync-bug/

Comment 5

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Gonna close this for now. Let me know if you still see problems.