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We've all turned off trimURLs but what else is hiding in there?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The firefox account is actually neat. It syncs bookmarks, history and passwords between desktop, phone, laptop or wherever you use firefox.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I manually backup my bookmarks. Firefox is set to delete history when I close it. For passwords I use KeePassXC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It might still be useful to turn it off in some scenarios. For example you might not want firefox bothering you with the account on work PC where it might be against company policy to use the cloud sync.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but I only use it on my personal devices...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I was just pointing out that the setting might be still useful for some FF users.