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Retiring Firefox Home

From the early days, Mozilla has been focused on empowering users across platforms and devices.  We released Firefox Home as an experiment in bringing a part of the Firefox experience to iOS, focusing on Firefox Sync.  This project provided valuable insight and experience with the platform, but we have decided to remove Firefox Home from… Read more

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Add-on Sync Coming to Firefox

We strive to make your online experience better and we have a new feature in the latest Firebox Beta we think you’ll love: add-on sync. Add-on sync does what its name implies: it synchronizes add-ons between profiles connected with Firefox Sync. Specifically, it will install, uninstall, enable, and disable add-ons across your devices as you… Read more

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Focusing on the integrated Firefox Sync experience

Today we are announcing the end of official support for the Firefox Sync add-on, focusing resources on improving and supporting the Sync experience for those users in the latest versions of Firefox. This means that the add-on will not be available at addons.mozilla.org and the only way to get Firefox Sync features will be to… Read more

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Enabling Quotas for Firefox Sync

This generally won’t affect users, but we wanted to be open about a change that will be deployed soon for our production servers. Essentially, we’re going to be defining a per-user disk quota for Firefox Sync, with the initial limit being 25 MB of data per user. For the vast majority of users, this will… Read more

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Firefox Sync on your Android

If you’ve just installed Firefox 4 on your Android phone, be sure to set up its must-have feature, Sync. Sync enables you to bring your bookmarks, passwords, history and even open tabs from all of your other devices. Once Sync is setup, you will no longer have to type in long URLs or remember passwords.… Read more

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Get Syncing with Firefox 4

With Firefox 4, we’re very excited to be bringing Sync as an integrated feature available right in the browser – no add-on required. Sync enables you to take your bookmarks, passwords, history and open tabs across all of your devices. If you have multiple computers, an Android phone, or an iPhone, Sync will get you… Read more

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Mailing List Changes

As a long-overdue part of the evolution of Weave into Mozilla Services, we are retiring a number of older Mozilla Labs lists, and creating some new lists with different aims and audiences. This means that all mozilla-labs-weave Google Groups will be closed and users directed to one of the links below. End User Support SUMO has… Read more

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Setting up Firefox Sync Just Got a Lot Easier

Firefox Sync is a built-in feature of Firefox 4 Beta that brings Firefox browsing history, boomarks, open tabs and passwords across all of your devices. Secure *and* easy to use We designed Firefox Sync to keep personal data secure. Until now, this meant setting up Firefox Sync was pretty involved, especially on mobile devices. Not… Read more

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Firefox Sync 1.5 now available

We’re very happy to announce the availability of version 1.5 of the Firefox Sync add-on. This release has several changes that make it easier to set up Sync for first time users. We have also made some back-end changes that will require some action on your part. Please read on for the details. Are you… Read more

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