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Felipe227
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I have a Galaxy S4 running android 4.4.2. Under account next to Firefox Sync it has (deprecated) next to it. What does this mean?

Dennis

I have a Galaxy S4 running android 4.4.2. Under account next to Firefox Sync it has (deprecated) next to it. What does this mean? Dennis

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Kevin
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There are two incompatible sync protocols, Firefox Sync (Deprecated) is v1.1 of the protocol, the Firefox account is version 1.5 of the protocol.

https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/02/07/a-better-firefox-sync/

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-update-to-the-new-firefox-sync