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"Tabs from other computers" option in history is disabled, even though I had setup sync properly.

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I had setup my sync on my ubuntu at home and windows at office and ticked the tab options to be true but when I open my FF at office I open history menu but the "Tabs from other computers" is disabled not allowing me to see tabs from my home pc. Also in sync settings when I change the name of machine it is not getting saved.

I had setup my sync on my ubuntu at home and windows at office and ticked the tab options to be true but when I open my FF at office I open history menu but the "Tabs from other computers" is disabled not allowing me to see tabs from my home pc. Also in sync settings when I change the name of machine it is not getting saved.

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Ah, you may be on the developer's Edition. When I tried this, the account that already existed only started to sync after I re-added the account.

Please try this: Remove the account and sign back in at accounts.firefox.com. That should jump start the sync.

If this does not work I would be happy to file a bug.

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Are they also showing up here about:sync-tabs They will only show the tabs from an active session right after the device syncs. However I am not sure how long they stay this way. Does this happen when you sync the two computers consecutively?

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They should show up until they're closed and that device syncs. If this is not happening,

  • How do I turn on sync logs:
  1. Open about:config and turn on: services.sync.log.appender.file.logOnSuccess and services.sync.log.logger.engine.bookmarks
  2. Restart Firefox and look at: about:sync-log
  3. Logs and error messages will be located here

Please also use pastebin.mozilla.org for sharring any errors that relate to this issue.

Thank you.

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Hi, Thanks for reply. But I did turned on logs and there is no error in logs and also at about:sync-tabs is also empty.

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Ah, you may be on the developer's Edition. When I tried this, the account that already existed only started to sync after I re-added the account.

Please try this: Remove the account and sign back in at accounts.firefox.com. That should jump start the sync.

If this does not work I would be happy to file a bug.