766836 - Sync more browser behavior preferences

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Sync, enhancement)

Description

[Wong Huong Cheong]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0
Build ID: 20120619191901

Steps to reproduce:

is it possible to add sync about:config content in firefox sync?


Actual results:

currently firefox sync does not have the feature


Expected results:

firefox sync the about:config across computer

Comment 1

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Firefox currently syncs a subset of preferences (what about:config is an interface to). All preferences listed under the preferences beginning with services.sync.prefs.sync are synced.

Is there a specific preference you think should be synced but isn't?

Comment 2

[Wong Huong Cheong]

I do some setting in about:config like animate tab, open tab after current page, mouse vertical scrolling line, etc.

Comment 3

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Yeah, it appears we are only syncing some of the browser.tabs preferences, for example. It is difficult keeping the list of synced preferences up to date with new preferences being added to Firefox.

I guess this is as good a time as any to reconcile the list.

Let's collect the list of browser.* preferences that aren't being synced then run it by people.

Comment 5

[u566146]

I would like to have an option in the about:config where I can specify additional about:config options to sync

I tried modifying the services/sync/services-sync.js but unfortunately I'm short on time and I don't know js so nothing came of it.

Comment 6

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

(In reply to blut.hannes from comment #5)
> I would like to have an option in the about:config where I can specify
> additional about:config options to sync

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Mozilla/Firefox_Sync/Syncing_custom_preferences - you can do exactly that.

Comment 7

[Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly]]

Given the link Mark provided above, I think we can close this issue.