Bug#742401: The Sync bug is still on

[Ignacio Agulló]

      Made a fresh install of Trisquel 7 today in a laptop, including  
Abrowser 44.0.2.  Having Firefox in all of my other devices (netbook,  
tablet and smartphone) and all of them synced, I inmediately tried to  
activate Sync on Abrowser, with no plug-ins or add-ons.  After  
clicking in "Sign in" I introduced my e-mail address and password.   
After that, I got a "Working..." message that went on straigth for at  
least half an hour before I gave up and closed Abrowser.

      In some Trisquel forum thread I found a discussion about this  
and a possible fix-up: to enter the about:config page, add a string  
named "services.sync.username" and give the value "0".  I did this,  
and afterwards I noticed the Preferences -> Sync menu from Abrowser  
changed - instead of "Sign in", I got the "Pair device" button.   
However, this procedure (which was the prodedure used since the Sync  
service was added to Firefox 4.0 and until the release of Firefox  
29.0) worked differently, and required me to take the "other" device  
(as if there could be only two instead of four) and introduce code on  
it.  This wasn't likely to work because at Firefox 29 release I  
accepted the Sync service change (I really disliked the new service  
which lacks end-to-end encryption, but Firefox 29 warned the old  
service was going into "deprecated" status and likely to be closed in  
the future) and have the Sync service now working by the new protocol  
on my other three devices.  So I closed the dialog box, and afterwards  
found that the Preferences -> Sync menu had went back to the "Create  
account / Sign up" buttons, with no "Pair device" button.  Also, at  
the about:config page, I found that the "services.sync.username" had  
disappeared.  So, no fix.

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Ignacio Agulló · agullo at ati.es

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