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by nottorp 910 days ago
Personal account? Account? When I switch from my desktop to my laptop and back, I sometimes get an extra Firefox icon in my dock. I once hovered over it and I think it was the sync feature.

I don't have a Firefox account and I'm not signed in into any browser on any account. Why does it try to sync things without my permission?
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marcosdumay 910 days ago
> Why does it try to sync things without my permission?

It doesn't. (The interface for enabling it is even a little anxiety-causing.) It doesn't add extra icons anywhere either.

You have some additional software doing that. Do you use a fork from the Mozilla code?

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nottorp 910 days ago
Nope, whatever they had me download. It's Macs so maybe they autoattached to handover or whatever Apple calls that feature. Which I like, but only for texts and phone calls.

The devices I mention are all in the same local network so maybe they discover each other.

Anyway, there's a post in this thread that explains perfectly why I (or that poster) don't need or want sync. Basically my different machines are used for different purposes so there's no reason to mix bookmarks or move browsing history around. As for credit card numbers... what is this insanity? I don't save credit card numbers anywhere.

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chuckadams 910 days ago
It’s probably handoff. On chrome I get the extra icon as well, but it also has a phone mini-icon over it and a tooltip saying “from Safari”. You can disable handoff, just goo—er, duckduckgo it
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nottorp 910 days ago
I wonder if i can disable it for all apps but still keep it for calls and texts…

Call answering from my laptop is the only thing that ever made me rush out and buy a new iPhone that supported it :)

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nottorp 909 days ago
... but what's it doing in handoff without being told to do so?
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marcosdumay 910 days ago
Oh, Firefox on the Mac is a wild and badly understood beast. It's worse on iOS.

I have no idea what you are supposed to expect there.

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zevon 909 days ago
Sounds like the "Handoff" functionality baked into MacOS. If it is, it is not the same cloud-based sync mechanism referred to in this thread and by the person you are replying to. You can disable Handoff system-wide in System Settings --> General --> AirDrop & Handoff.
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