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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?i

by 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).