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Love it. I abandoned the old sync. Figuring out how to set it up was more difficult than trying to learn Julia. Only thing I didn't love was the icon, but its

Love it. I abandoned the old sync. Figuring out how to set it up was more difficult than trying to learn Julia. Only thing I didn't love was the icon, but its beta so hey. Link to Aurora nightly: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-aurora/

emn13 13y ago
How is Options>Sync>Pair a Device and follow the directions difficult? I mean, it was definitely too many steps, and it wasn't labelled clearly enough which device was the master and which was the slave, but those are more like "users won't bother to find it" troubles, rather than it actually being difficult if you want to turn it on.
- yeukhon 13y ago
  Please see the presentation. It gives you some clue why the old sync wasn't user friendly (you probably can guess already). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7200425 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7200425 Basically, many assumed it was a backup program. Recovery was painful. There was multiple iterations of enhancement before they decided to roll out Fx Account, it was clear that users didn't like the original Sync. Fx Account is more than Sync. This is like having a Google account and allows you to connect to Mozilla services like Marketplace and all instances of Firefox a user owns.
  - emn13 13y ago
    Oh yeah, I totally agree the old sync wasn't friendly - but that's something totally different. It wasn't intuitive, and it was surprising in that it really was just a sync, not a backup. Nevertheless, it was still pretty easy to enable if you actually wanted to. Easy can still be frustrating (as in why all these steps and which machine is which, and why do I even need to look up how to do this?), and it can still be user unfriendly (as in not allowing recovery).
- arawde 13y ago
  The steps to turn on sync for devices where you don't have access to both at the same time are a bit mangled since you're required to use the recovery key. I'm hoping with this it will turn into something close to Chrome's sync
  - emn13 13y ago
    Well, minus the need to to have the decrypted/decryptable passwords in the hands of the service provider. I'm not too happy with the way chrome deals with that, it just means that the impact of any hack is going to be much larger than necessary.
drdaeman 13y ago
Personally, I would really hate to have to setup and manage yet another account just to pair a sync a desktop and phone browsers.

emn13 13y ago

How is Options>Sync>Pair a Device and follow the directions difficult? I mean, it was definitely too many steps, and it wasn't labelled clearly enough which device was the master and which was the slave, but those are more like "users won't bother to find it" troubles, rather than it actually being difficult if you want to turn it on.

yeukhon 13y ago
Please see the presentation. It gives you some clue why the old sync wasn't user friendly (you probably can guess already). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7200425 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7200425 Basically, many assumed it was a backup program. Recovery was painful. There was multiple iterations of enhancement before they decided to roll out Fx Account, it was clear that users didn't like the original Sync. Fx Account is more than Sync. This is like having a Google account and allows you to connect to Mozilla services like Marketplace and all instances of Firefox a user owns.
- emn13 13y ago
  Oh yeah, I totally agree the old sync wasn't friendly - but that's something totally different. It wasn't intuitive, and it was surprising in that it really was just a sync, not a backup. Nevertheless, it was still pretty easy to enable if you actually wanted to. Easy can still be frustrating (as in why all these steps and which machine is which, and why do I even need to look up how to do this?), and it can still be user unfriendly (as in not allowing recovery).
arawde 13y ago
The steps to turn on sync for devices where you don't have access to both at the same time are a bit mangled since you're required to use the recovery key. I'm hoping with this it will turn into something close to Chrome's sync
- emn13 13y ago
  Well, minus the need to to have the decrypted/decryptable passwords in the hands of the service provider. I'm not too happy with the way chrome deals with that, it just means that the impact of any hack is going to be much larger than necessary.

drdaeman 13y ago

Personally, I would really hate to have to setup and manage yet another account just to pair a sync a desktop and phone browsers.