956379 - signing into about:accounts isn't syncing bookmarks on Fennec nightly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Android Sync, defect)

Description

[Edwin Wong [:edwong]]

1. download nightly for android (I'm on galaxy s4)
2. goto about:accounts
3. sign in as [e-mail] or your own acct.
4. look at bookmarks

actual: bookmarks don't sync from desktop and desktop doesn't display fennec's book marks either.  I tried restarted fennec and desktop and waited 15 min.  If i refresh about:accounts - It doesn't tell me that I'm logged in.  Let me know if anyone wants to break that out as a different bug.

Comment 1

[James Bonacci [:jbonacci]]

What odd results you get. This was working for me on the late Dec nightly build I used (check my giant email sent to dev-fxacct).

I will look into this early next week when I return.

Comment 2

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

(In reply to Edwin Wong [:edwong] from comment #0)
> 1. download nightly for android (I'm on galaxy s4)
> 2. goto about:accounts
> 3. sign in as [e-mail] or your own acct.
> 4. look at bookmarks
> 
> actual: bookmarks don't sync from desktop and desktop doesn't display
> fennec's book marks either.  I tried restarted fennec and desktop and waited
> 15 min.  If i refresh about:accounts - It doesn't tell me that I'm logged
> in.  Let me know if anyone wants to break that out as a different bug.

I expect Syncing to work both ways; but about:accounts on Fennec is a stub to allow signing up and in only.  Once you have the Android Firefox Account object (check Android Settings > Accounts) about:accounts is out of the picture.

We're building native UI equivalent to about:accounts right now.

Comment 3

[Edwin Wong [:edwong]]

I believe this issue only occurs if you have an existing account.  If you create account, then sign in, it will sync correctly.

Comment 4

[Erin Lancaster [:elan]]

about:accounts is being deprecated.