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Firefox 6 erased my sync settings

taskmaster76
taskmaster76
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I recently updated to Firefox 6 and it seems as though my sync settings were removed... my Firefox Home app is still working on my iPhone, but when I try to input my username, password and sync key is says the sync key is wrong, I never changed it to my knowledge... so what gives?

I recently updated to Firefox 6 and it seems as though my sync settings were removed... my Firefox Home app is still working on my iPhone, but when I try to input my username, password and sync key is says the sync key is wrong, I never changed it to my knowledge... so what gives?

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John99
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This is a relatively newish feature, that I do not myself use. From the various posts I have seen it may be having some teething troubles, have a look at:

I guess it is a case of throw it out and start again. Until it gets more reliable I would recommend also backing up your bookmarks manually.

(Watch out for the dinosaurs)

taskmaster76
taskmaster76 Question owner
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Yea, lol dinosaurs lame, seems like sync is just broke, gonna wait for Mozilla to un-frack their code I guess. Well the feature was nice until it wasn't...