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Clicking "Get started" when trying to Sign in to Sync on Portable FF, I get a blank screen. It works on installed FF. What can I do to get it to work portably?

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martinfors
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Portable Firefox: 1. I click on the "hamburger icon" in the top right 2. I click "Sign in to Sync" 3. I click "Get started" 4. I get a blank screen with no option to create new or log in to existing account.

Installer Firefox or Firefox Mobile: 1-3: Same as above 4. I get the form to sign up and enter my credentials 5. I don't get an activation e-mail

Portable Firefox: 1. I click on the "hamburger icon" in the top right 2. I click "Sign in to Sync" 3. I click "Get started" 4. I get a blank screen with no option to create new or log in to existing account. Installer Firefox or Firefox Mobile: 1-3: Same as above 4. I get the form to sign up and enter my credentials 5. I don't get an activation e-mail

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martinfors
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I've fixed the first problem, seeing a blank screen. This was due to Third party cookies. Apparently those has to be accepted.

But I still don't get any e-mail links to verify my account. I've tried to resend a couple of times from the Android app and from the portably installed version on Windows. I've also created a second account without any luck to be able to verify.

cor-el
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Make sure that you allow cookies for the accounts.firefox.com domain if you aren't allowing cookies generally or use the 'Ask me' cookie setting.

martinfors
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I know. That's what I found out when I enabled all third party cookies like I mentioned in my reply to my own post.

But it still leaves me with the problem that e-mail verifications are never sent to me. Quite an important part of making Sync work...