{"id":5111,"date":"2010-06-30T15:12:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T22:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2.419"},"modified":"2010-06-30T15:12:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T22:12:11","slug":"firefox-sync-1-4-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2010\/06\/firefox-sync-1-4-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Sync 1.4 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Mozilla is proud to announce the latest release of Firefox Sync is now <a title=\"Install Firefox Sync from addons.mozilla.org\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/10868\/\">available for download<\/a>.\u00a0 This release includes the following main features:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>It enables you to give friendly names to identify your computers  (John&#8217;s Work Laptop, Mary&#8217;s Home Desktop etc) which is especially useful  when you use <a title=\"Firefox Home\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/26\/firefox-home-coming-soon-to-the-iphone\/\">Firefox Home<\/a>, our upcoming iPhone app.<\/li>\n<li>It includes some major UI changes in preparation for bringing Firefox Sync to Firefox 4.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, we also have numerous performance and stability improvements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><a title=\"Install Firefox Sync from addons.mozilla.org\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/10868\/\">Download and setup Firefox Sync now<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"magicdomid17\">UI Changes in Firefox Sync 1.4<\/h3>\n<div>In order to improve the user experience when using Tab Sync, we have added  the ability to set a friendly name for your computer, so you can easily  tell which tabs are from which devices.\u00a0 This is designed to improve  the user experience for tab sync across all devices, especially for Firefox on mobile devices and the upcoming Firefox Home release.<\/div>\n<div>Firefox 4 is heading in the <a href=\"http:\/\/jboriss.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/29\/removing-firefoxs-status-bar-and-rehousing-add-on-icons-part-1-of-2\/\">direction of a simpler and cleaner UI<\/a>. In preparation for bringing Sync to Firefox 4, we&#8217;ve reduced the presence of Firefox Sync in the primary UI for Firefox. To meet the needs of a simpler UI, you can now only access Firefox Sync through the Tools menu versus the previous UI where Sync was available in both the status bar and in the Tools menu.\u00a0 As we continue to evolve Firefox Sync  and scale our server backend, we will sync more frequently for a more  seamless user experience, which means this UI would have been a frequent  distraction for users.\u00a0 We&#8217;re very interested in constructive feedback about how we can continue to evolve the user experience on our mailing list.<\/div>\n<h3>For more information:<\/h3>\n<div><a title=\"Firefox Sync wiki docs\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox_Sync\">Wiki<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla-labs-weave\">Mailing List<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"irc:\/\/irc.mozilla.org\/#labs\">IRC<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla is proud to announce the latest release of Firefox Sync is now available for download.\u00a0 This release includes the following main features: It enables you to give friendly names to identify your computers (John&#8217;s Work Laptop, Mary&#8217;s Home Desktop &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2010\/06\/firefox-sync-1-4-released\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}