736433 - exclude or ignore list for addons sync

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 735605

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Johannes Rohr]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0 Iceweasel/11.0
Build ID: 20120314100319

Steps to reproduce:

There are some addons I would like to exclude from sync. E.g. when I install dictionary addons on Windows, I don't want them to be auto-installed on Linux, because on Linux, dictionaries are already installed system-wide.

Up to now I have been using siphon for addons sync. In siphon you can tick "ignore" or "don't sync" in such cases.

Comment 1

[Siddhartha Dugar [:sdrocking]]

Mark this as blocking Bug 534956

Comment 2

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

The request for "selective add-on sync" is already being tracked in bug 735605. And, a partial workaround for that is described at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Sync/Addon_Sync#Can_I_have_different_enabled_states_on_different_machines.3F

Another workaround would be to disable add-on sync through the Sync preferences and continue to use Siphon.

Normally, I would mark this bug as a duplicate. However, because of the dictionaries on Linux comment, I'm not sure if there is a scenario there that needs to be considered.

Can someone from add-ons comment and triage the bug accordingly?

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop] (PTO until Aug 21st)]

I'm not sure I understand what difference you think there is between this and bug 735605, can you elaborate?

Comment 4

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

remove dupe if this really isn't bug 735605