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I think linking to a Firefox account will truncate your local history to the maximum retention of Firefox Sync, which is 1 year or a size limit. It's pretty lam

I think linking to a Firefox account will truncate your local history to the maximum retention of Firefox Sync, which is 1 year or a size limit. It's pretty lame if that is the behaviour. I seem to get variable retentions between computers. For instance i have FF on a work laptop with sync blocked, and have purple links and history from 6+ years ago. FF on my personal machines which have been synced at one time or another certainly don't have 6 years of history.

TeMPOraL 3y ago
> I think linking to a Firefox account will truncate your local history to the maximum retention of Firefox Sync, which is 1 year or a size limit. It's pretty lame if that is the behaviour. Uh. Yeah, that seems to track - my current history seems to back to about when I first set up Firefox Sync. If that's really the case, then... it's really lame. I don't recall it being communicated at all during Firefox account creation and activating sync, and it's exactly the kind of information I pay attention to. In fact, the idea of enabling cloud sync being a destructive operation, silently truncating local data, is preposterous. I wouldn't have thought of it.