877624 - home screen links modified by sync

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 858992

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[wolpi.dev]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130511120803

Steps to reproduce:

I manually set links on my home screen. FF shows a gray rectangle in the top right corner of that link's preview image. The long-tab menu of that link changes to "change; remove from home screen; remove".


Actual results:

After syncing with a desktop FF, my links are overridden with pages I use often on that desktop installation. The gray rectangles are gone and the long-tab menu changes to the default.


Expected results:

I want to keep my manually set links.

Comment 1

[wolpi.dev]

Oh, with "gray rectangles" of course I mean gray triangles.

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Pinning a site (having opt-in via long-press on a thumbnail) on about:home should keep it pinned. As far as I'm aware, syncing should not alter the configuration of pinned sites as determined by a user, if not, then we have a problem.

Do you have any steps to reproduce? I assume you pinned a site prior to a Sync, after a Sync you checked back on about:home, and your pinned sites we're replaced? Were the new sites pinned?

Comment 3

[wolpi.dev]

> I assume you pinned a site prior to a Sync, after a Sync you checked back on about:home, and 
> your pinned sites we're replaced? 

Yes, exactly.


> Were the new sites pinned?

No, they were not.

Comment 4

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Fixed in 23: Bug 858992.

We could uplift that to 22…

Comment 5

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Totally forgot about that one, yeah we should.