What to do to synchronize Mozilla Firefox.
If you use Firefox at home, at work, and on your smartphone, then you will probably find it much more convenient to use the browser if you sync your bookmarks, history, settings, and tabs across all your devices. Firefox Sync makes this easy. All you need to do is register using the address Email and password.
Firefox Sync also lets you share add-ons between desktop versions of the browser, so you don't have to re-download every extension or plugin every time you open Firefox on any computer. I quote below full instructions about how to register for Firefox Sync and what settings need to be made on devices.
Registering for Firefox Sync
The screenshots below show the registration process on a Windows 10 computer, but the same steps apply to Firefox on Windows 7, 8, Apple OS X, Android and Linux.
1. Click the button Open menu
2. Select an item Login to sync:
3. Press the button Create an account:
4. Enter an existing address Email, password And your age numbers and press the button Create an account:
5. Uncheck the boxes for the content you don't want to sync (You can change this later). Click the button Save settings:
6. After creating an account, we see the following message:
7. Confirm your email account. To do this, we find in it a letter with the subject Confirm your Firefox account and click on the button in the letter Activate now:
8. We meet a window in the browser:
9. Open the menu in the browser again and press the button Synchronize:
10. If you want to change the synchronization settings, open the account settings located to the left of the synchronization button:
How to sign into Firefox Sync and sync
Let's say you've gone through all the steps to create an account in Firefox Sync and now you need to synchronize all your browser settings on another device. The screenshots below show the login process for Firefox Sync on a Windows 10 computer, but the same steps apply for Firefox on Windows 7, 8, Apple OS X, Android, and Linux.
1. Click the button Open menu in the right top corner browser:
2. Select an item Login to sync.
A modern person actively uses the Internet, moving from a home computer to a work computer, then to a smartphone or tablet, then again to home computer. Each device has bookmarks, sometimes there are quite a lot of such bookmarks.
Necessary steps to synchronize Mozilla
Search lost information in the ocean of data is a difficult task. As well as re-registering personal settings, tightening extensions. Sometimes the need to save data also arises when reinstalling the operating system.
That's why all modern browsers have built-in own systems, ensuring the alignment of user data when working on different gadgets. Such synchronization is also provided in Mozilla. There is a Firefox Sync service for this. So, how to synchronize mozilla. Let's divide the process into steps.
First step
In order to synchronize Mozilla Firefox you need to create an account - an account. It will be the identifier, the binding of user data in the system. Using the manager’s service, the user sends passwords, keys, and bookmarks to the browser servers for storage.
When you log into your Mozilla profile from a new device to sync your bookmarks, it automatically uploads them there. It is advisable that the latest version be installed on all user devices. Firefox version.
Create a profile in the browser. For this:
Second step
Congratulations. Let's proceed directly to the process of synchronizing Mozilla bookmarks.
The browser will open a menu with the corresponding table of contents. There you can uncheck items that are not subject to it:
- tabs;
- bookmarks;
- passwords;
- stories;
- additions;
- settings.
The necessary properties will be automatically added.
Third step
In order to synchronize Mozilla on all existing devices, you need:
To remove any of the devices you need to do the following.
In this article I will describe in detail how to synchronize data in Firefox. Preface: If you use Mozilla browser Firefox not only at home, but also at work or on other devices such as a laptop, netbook or tablet, you need synchronization Firefox data Sync. Firefox Sync will help you keep your bookmarks, settings, additions at hand.
In the process of writing an article, I will use 2 computers. One under Windows management 7, the other for Windows 8.
Let's set up synchronization on our Mozilla Firefox.
Step one: Set up Firefox Sync on your main PC
Open the browser, click on the menu Tools → Settings → Settings, go to the “Synchronization” tab. Next, “Configure Firefox Sync.”
In order to organize synchronization, you need to create a Firefox Sync account.
Click the “Create an account” button, then fill in all the fields: Email address. email, password twice and accept the terms of service and privacy policy. Click next.
Very important! Be sure to write down your synchronization key in a safe place or save it; there is a special button for this.
Step two: We receive the installation code from another device.
Now we go to the second computer with which we want to synchronize. Open Firefox, click on the menu Tools → Options → Settings, go to the “Synchronization” tab. Next, “Configure Firefox Sync.”
Then click “I have an account”
In this window we are presented with the keys. We write them down and go to the first computer.
Step three: Synchronizing browsers
Open the browser, click on the menu Tools → Settings → Settings, go to the “Synchronization” tab. Next, “Connect to device.”
Synchronization is ready!!!
After 10-15 minutes, all your settings are synchronized with your second computer.
What if you are not near your main computer?
Go to Firefox synchronization settings. Click “I have an account” after “I don’t have a device with me.” Then we log into our account and additionally write our recovery key. Installation completed.
Firefox sync is a seamless and flexible process that lets you access your bookmarks, settings, passwords, tabs, history, and browser add-ons from any computer or mobile device. You can synchronize both all categories without exception, as well as individual selected categories. If, for example, you do not save passwords in a cache, then there is no need to synchronize them. This procedure has its own characteristics, and we will talk about them in this article.
Preparing to sync Firefox
So, let's say you have created many tabs in Firefox, and would like to sync them with a remote cloud server so that you can access them from another computer. How to do it?
Open the Firefox browser and go to the settings page. To do this, press the button with three horizontal lines in the upper right corner and select the “Sign in to synchronization” section.
An alternative way is to select the “Settings” option in the menu and in the form that opens, go to the “Synchronization” category.
As a result of such simple manipulations, a Firefox synchronization form will appear in front of you. Then there may be 2 options:
— if you already have a Firefox account, you can connect to it and immediately synchronize all the most important elements;
— if you haven’t created an account yet, you should register and create one.
Let's focus on the second option, since most likely you have not performed any synchronization before, and everything needs to start from scratch.
How to create a Firefox account?
In appropriate open window Click the “Create account” button.
The service registration form appears Firefox Sync. Enter your name email box, come up with a password to log into the service and indicate your age in the field below. When all the data has been entered, click the “Create account” button at the bottom of the screen.
The next form we will encounter is a window for selecting synchronized elements. Make the necessary marks and click on the “Save parameters” button.
If everything went well, a message will appear indicating successful registration and the ability to use Firefox services Sync. To log into the service and check the settings, click on the “Synchronization Settings” button.
In the form that opens, you can check that your computer is connected to account Firefox, and it automatically syncs checked items.
In addition to selecting items to synchronize, we find the functions of changing the password and changing the display name and deleting an account if necessary to be very useful and relevant. To use these features, click the “Account Management” button to the right of your account name.
To disconnect from the service, you must use the “Disconnect” button. In this case Firefox synchronization will stop, and the changes on your local machine will not reach the remote server.
This operation must be confirmed.
How to enable synchronization if you no longer need to register?
Let's assume that you completed the registration step earlier, and now you just need to log into the prepared account. How to do it?
Go to the “Synchronization” section of the options menu and click the “Login” button here.
The standard account login window appears. Enter your username and password, and you're done—Firefox synchronization is back in effect.
If, while disconnecting from Firefox Sync, you added any of the bookmarks, deleted some, and moved some to another location, 10 seconds after connecting to the service everything will return to its place and you will receive the same prepared set that was configured before the moment you disconnect from Firefox Sync.
How to synchronize Firefox installed on a smartphone?
Mobile devices can also access all bookmarks, history, tabs and other attributes of the most powerful modern browser Firefox. To do this, launch the Firefox web navigator on your phone and tap on the call button context menu on the left and select the “Options” section in the menu that appears.
Next, the already familiar account login form appears. We create new account, or we enter one already prepared in advance. To log into a ready-made account, select the option “Already have an account? Login" below.
This concludes our instructions. We have dotted all the i’s in an attempt to tell you in detail what Firefox synchronization is, how it works and how to use it. We hope that the material described will help you understand in detail all the nuances of this process, and you will enjoy the convenience and comfort of working with this amazing high-speed browser.
The Mozilla Firefox browser uses a system of profiles, each of which has its own own settings and parameters. Changes made by users to browser settings are recorded in a file that is stored separately from the main program components. Even if Firefox is uninstalled and installed (you can read about how to install the Mozilla Firefox browser) again, all settings, bookmarks (you can read more about working with bookmarks) and other user data will remain available. The browser also provides special component for account management, with which you can delete a profile in Firefox, which is what we’ll talk about today.
Account Manager
To launch the profile management component, you will need:
- Close the running copy of the browser by clicking on the menu button in the upper right corner of the window and selecting “Exit FireFox”.
- Press the “Windows” + “R” key combination on your keyboard.
- In the window that opens, enter the command “Firefox.exe –p) and press the Enter key, as a result of which the account management component should open, from where you can delete the profile in Firefox.
Here's what the described procedure looks like in practice:
A list of available profiles will be displayed in the window that appears. If you click on the “Create” button, a new account will be connected with standard settings. By selecting it and launching the browser, you can configure the browser differently, and then quickly switch between settings using this window whenever you want. Passwords, history, tab display options and Homepage– all browser options will be pulled from the selected profile.
To make it easier to distinguish profiles from each other, you can assign names to them using the “Rename” button. If you want FireFox to open the profile manager every time it starts, you will need to click on each account in the list one by one and uncheck the “Launch the selected profile without prompting” checkbox.
Deleting a profile
And, accordingly, in order to delete a profile in Firefox, you need to use the “Delete” button, after which you will need to confirm the operation being performed in the following pop-up notification:
Important! Please read this warning carefully. You must understand that along with the profile, saved passwords, bookmarks and other data are also deleted, and it is not possible to cancel the procedure. Use profile deletion only in extreme cases.
If deleting a profile is done in order to, then it is better to use another function, which is called “FireFox setup” and is available from the “about:support” page. This function rolls back all changes made to the browser, but retains important user data.
So, today we looked at the basics of working with the Fox Explorer profile manager, thanks to which you can switch between settings on the fly without storing multiple copies of the same program on your computer. This is undoubtedly very convenient, and no other browser can boast of such a feature.