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What is the purpose of the blue REFRESH STATUS button under devices & apps in accounts.firefox.com/settings?

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Does REFRESH STATUS do the same thing as REFRESH FIREFOX? Amongst mozilla support pages I can find explanations for the latter's purpose but I find no links to anything addressing this blue REFRESH button under devices & apps in accounts.firefox.com/settings?

See attached screenshots of part of the page where I find this REFRESH STATUS option. I bifurcated the image so as to protect personal info. I have no idea whether to click REFRESH or not. Please elucidate and advise. Thanks, HalloLuna

Does REFRESH STATUS do the same thing as REFRESH FIREFOX? Amongst mozilla support pages I can find explanations for the latter's purpose but I find no links to anything addressing this blue REFRESH button under devices & apps in accounts.firefox.com/settings? See attached screenshots of part of the page where I find this REFRESH STATUS option. I bifurcated the image so as to protect personal info. I have no idea whether to click REFRESH or not. Please elucidate and advise. Thanks, HalloLuna
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No, that is for refreshing the display of Devices & apps on that page after Disconnect.. for a device, for situations such as a "duplicate" entry (like after an OS re-installation), or a device you aren't using any longer, etc.

See my screenshot of the dialog that appears when using Disconnect.

That is a new feature that I am not familiar with so there's probably other reasons for that feature that hasn't come to mind yet. But I can think of a few instances over the last 5 or 6 years where that feature would have been helpful to clean up the list as I was swapping out devices; would have saved me the time I spent creating a new Firefox Account to start from scratch.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fxa-managing-devices?utm_source=accounts.firefox.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=fxa-devices

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/im-having-problems-with-my-firefox-account#w_how-do-i-use-firefox-accounts-on-my-devices

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Like posted above, this is for refreshing the list of connected devices to update for possible changes if you keep the page open for a longer time, just like you do for refreshing an email list to get new emails showing.