{"id":483,"date":"2012-07-02T09:13:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T09:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/?p=483"},"modified":"2012-06-14T14:28:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T14:28:45","slug":"firefox-tip-sync-your-desktop-and-mobile-browsers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/2012\/07\/02\/firefox-tip-sync-your-desktop-and-mobile-browsers\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Tip &#8211; Sync Your Desktop and Mobile Browsers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More and more people are using Firefox on their Android phones. (<a title=\"Download Mobile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/mobile\/android-download.html?WT.mc_id=fxa_den\" target=\"_blank\">Download it here if you don\u2019t have it yet<\/a>.) This tip is for those mobile users and comes from contributor Jaclyn F.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I connect my desktop Firefox to my mobile Firefox by clicking Sync on the About:Home page and then \u2018Pair a Device\u2019.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/files\/2012\/06\/syncdefaulthome.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-484\" title=\"syncdefaulthome\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/files\/2012\/06\/syncdefaulthome.png\" alt=\"Sync\" width=\"350\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/files\/2012\/06\/syncdefaulthome.png 350w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/files\/2012\/06\/syncdefaulthome-252x138.png 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThanks for pointing that out, Jaclyn! Firefox Sync lets you synchronize your bookmarks, history, passwords, add-ons and open tabs with another copy of Firefox \u2013 like one on a mobile phone\u00a0\u2013 so your browser experience goes with you. <a title=\"SUMO Sync Devices\" href=\"http:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/kb\/add-a-device-to-firefox-sync\" target=\"_blank\">Read more on how to Sync devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a tip you\u2019d like to share with other Firefox users, please post it on our <a title=\"Firefox Facebook Page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/firefox\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> page with #FirefoxTips and tag us, or post on Twitter with #FirefoxTips. You can also <a title=\"Firefox Tips Archive\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/2012\/06\/01\/see-the-web-in-color-with-firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\">view more tips in our archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you found this tip useful, be sure to share it with the Facebook and Twitter buttons below, and help tell the world about Firefox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more people are using Firefox on their Android phones. (Download it here if you don\u2019t have it yet.) This tip is for those mobile users and comes from contributor Jaclyn F. &#8220;I connect my desktop Firefox to my &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/2012\/07\/02\/firefox-tip-sync-your-desktop-and-mobile-browsers\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":378,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4498,917],"tags":[278480,8807,278484],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Firefox Tip - Sync Your Desktop and Mobile Browsers - The Den<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/2012\/07\/02\/firefox-tip-sync-your-desktop-and-mobile-browsers\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Carmen Collins\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/2012\/07\/02\/firefox-tip-sync-your-desktop-and-mobile-browsers\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/2012\/07\/02\/firefox-tip-sync-your-desktop-and-mobile-browsers\/\",\"name\":\"Firefox Tip - Sync Your Desktop and Mobile Browsers - The Den\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/2012\/07\/02\/firefox-tip-sync-your-desktop-and-mobile-browsers\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/2012\/07\/02\/firefox-tip-sync-your-desktop-and-mobile-browsers\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/files\/2012\/03\/firefox_logo.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-07-02T09:13:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-06-14T14:28:45+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/#\/schema\/person\/f72e292cb1e656a930fa14cbf7406b5b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/2012\/07\/02\/firefox-tip-sync-your-desktop-and-mobile-browsers\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/2012\/07\/02\/firefox-tip-sync-your-desktop-and-mobile-browsers\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/2012\/07\/02\/firefox-tip-sync-your-desktop-and-mobile-browsers\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/files\/2012\/03\/firefox_logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/files\/2012\/03\/firefox_logo.png\",\"width\":\"130\",\"height\":\"130\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/2012\/07\/02\/firefox-tip-sync-your-desktop-and-mobile-browsers\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/theden\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Firefox Tip &#8211; 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