Firefox Sync, originally branded Mozilla Weave, is a
browser synchronization
Browser synchronization (often simply called sync) is a free cloud service provided by a web browser vendor for sharing settings and data across multiple installs. This is typically used to maintain a consistent browser setup on multiple device ...
feature for
Firefox
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current ...
web browsers. It allows users to partially synchronize
bookmarks, browsing history, preferences, passwords, filled forms,
add-ons, and the last 25 opened tabs across multiple computers. The feature is now
included in Firefox and it's being implemented in
Thunderbird
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* Ford Thunderbird, a car
Birds
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.
It keeps user data on Mozilla servers, but according to Mozilla the data is encrypted in such a way that no third party, not even Mozilla, can access user information. It is also possible for the user to host their own Firefox Sync servers, or indeed, for any entity to do so.
Firefox Sync was originally an
add-on for
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current an ...
3.x and
SeaMonkey
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2.0, but it has been a built-in feature since Firefox 4.0 and SeaMonkey 2.1.
Firefox Sync is built on top of Firefox Accounts as of Firefox 29, and therefore Firefox 29 and later cannot sync with Firefox 28 and earlier.
Firefox Home
Firefox Home was a companion application for the
iPhone and
iPod Touch
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based on the Firefox Sync technology. Firefox Home was not considered a web browser, as it would launch pages in either an embedded viewer or by switching to the Safari app. In December 2014, Mozilla announced
Firefox for iOS
Firefox for iOS is a free and open-source web browser from Mozilla, for the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch mobile devices. It is the first Firefox-branded browser not to use the Gecko layout engine as is used in Firefox for desktop and mob ...
, a version of the Firefox browser for
iOS,
which includes Firefox Sync support for syncing Firefox's browsing history, bookmarks, and recent tabs.
Sync Server
Mozilla also offers a synchronization server application for use with Firefox Sync, for users and businesses that prefer to host their own synchronization data.
See also
*
Comparison of browser synchronizers
References
External links
Firefox SyncFirefox MobileGithub page of iOS client
{{Mozilla projects
Cloud applications
Firefox extensions merged to Firefox