Firefox for iOS Support Forum

Hi My firefox on 2 macbooks, Ipad and Iphone are all signed in and sync is on but the passwords etc don't sync. In fact, if I make any new account on one device, despite repeated syncing attempts, the passwords NEVER sync.

After Clean Firefox Install. I can login with Firefox (iPad) to Paypal. Login request consists of username, password and SMS which works fine.

After that: I log in to my Account ( https://accounts.firefox.com/) to synchronize my bookmarks.

From this time I have a login problem with Paypal. On the Paypal login page I can enter my user name and password. The option to verify with SMS is missing. Instead, a message: We can not log you in!

Safari works always fine. A log out does not solve the problem. Only a clean install and no login at accounts.firefox.com helps to solve the problem.

I have opened another Firefox account to test with a fresh account. Unfortunately also the same problem

But I need to sync my bookmarks. Any Idea?

Hi,

I have Firefox on my desktop, laptop and iPhone. The only device on which I do not have access to my usernames and passwords to login into my online accounts is on my iPhone. And yes I have set it up correctly with the QR code etc... By reading all the messages from other users, I'd like to know if I need to ditch Firefox for good and go back to chrome. Or will someone fro Firefox come up with the fix for that glitch. Waiting for a couple days. After that, Firefox will be history for me. And oh yes, I will talk about this every chance I get while on TV.

I will call this syncing actually it is not. I have lockwise on my iphone. I AM SIGNED INTO my mozilla firefox account on my laptop. I discovered my lockwise passwords were no longer on my ios device. Trying to sign into my firefox lockwise account and it tells me password invalid, laptop signed in? What i need is to get my firefox passwords back to my lockwise firefox account to import them to another password manager. can you help please.

Hello,

Need assistance transferring passwords and bookmarks from my iPhone Firefox browser to my PC Firefox browser.

Quick summary of how I got into this situation - my SSDrive on my PC crashed last Friday. I received PC back yesterday with new SSD and downloaded the Firefox browser. When it asked me for my password, I clicked 'reset' instead of (in hindsight) just retrieving my password from my iPhone Firefox browser. After resetting password on my PC, I received account recover keys, although all my bookmarks and passwords were deleted on that account. Nonetheless, all bookmarks and passwords are still on my iPhone Firefox browser which is not signed in. I'm assuming if I sign in to the new PC account, all the bookmarks and passwords on iPhone browser will disappear. Is there anyway I can export or transfer these passwords and bookmarks from iPhone to PC?

Hello, I have FFon my iPad, iPhone, and laptop. Does sync happen automatically on all devices? Or do I need to manually sync each device? For example, when I add a Bookmark on my iPad, it does not show up on my iPhone or laptop? I am expecting it to automatically but am wondering if my expectation is incorrect. Thanks! Dave

Hello, I have FFon my iPad, iPhone, and laptop. Does sync happen automatically on all devices? Or do I need to manually sync each device? For example, when I add a Bookmark on my iPad, it does not show up on my iPhone or laptop? I am expecting it to automatically but am wondering if my expectation is incorrect. Thanks! Dave

attemp to sync passwords from laptop to iphone 12 (both are upto date on software) laptop gets error 500 phone confirms sync Next there are no passwords on the phone. several trys netted the error 500 before all the pass words were gone. What is error 500?

I am a long time (decades) user of Firefox. I run Firefox on Macbook, Android, iPad, and Windows 10. One of the features I use a lot, is the sending of tabs from one device to another. Mostly with the iPad being the target. Recently, Firefox crashed on the iPad. Not a problem, I thought. Firefox has crashed before and machines running Firefox have crashed before. Firefox has always nicely restored tabs that were open at the time of the crash. Not so after this crash on the iPad. Selecting the button to restore tabs did not restore anything. I quickly opened the tabs that were synchronised from the iPad on my Macbook. Firefox on the iPad had lost the way altogether. There were 3 entries in the synchronisation database for it now, two with identical name. Sending tabs to the ipad could only be done to the wrong name. Renaming the machine on the iPad did not result in corrections, so I uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox on the iPad. This did not correct the issues, so I deleted the iPad Firefox devices (all for the same device) from the Macbook. That worked. After that I set up the proper name for the device on the iPad, and sync and sending tabs worked again. The next problem was that web pages that worked before did not open in Firefox on the iPad any more. Some cookie settings pages worked alright. The cookie settings page for my newspaper did not work any more. No way at all to get to those settings. The pages for my newspaper also did not load to the end any more, making Firefox on the iPad quite useless for me. I have tried several things, including uninstalling and installing again, deleting all web content from within Firefox, restarting the iPad, … Nothing solves these problems. What I noted during all these actions in Firefox on the iPad is that most of the time the Settings -> Data Management -> Web Site Data acttion kept showing a little thingy going round and round and round and round. I have only seen web site data there once. Anyway, since it looks as if Firefox does not work any more on my iPad and is not restorable, it seems, I am now switching to Chrome. I find this very disappointing, as I really like (a working) Firefox as my browser. Nice features, good privacy, works everywhere (until recently). Not withstanding that, I do need a good, functional browser. So, for the moment I am switching to the Google Chrome browser. Because I use the sending of tabs between device very frequently, I am going to switch on all my devices. I really hope to hear in the near future that the iPad issues for Firefox are fixed. Good chance that I will then switch back to Firefox.

I recently started using Firefox on both desktop (Windows PC) and mobile device (iPhone). I rely on my bookmark organization a lot. One thing I noticed is that there's discrepancy in name of "Other Bookmarks" (called "Unsorted Bookmarks" on iPhone) folder placed on desktop Bookmarks Bar (I only use Bookmarks bar and this folder for all my bookmarks).

Is it safe to assume this is merely a temporary and cosmetic discrepancy and this folder will be renamed to "Other Bookmarks" on iPhone too? Or does it have some special properties? Last thing I want is Firefox unsorting my carefully sorted bookmarks...

I'd really like keep one set of synced bookmarks between all my devices and accessible completely from Bookmarks bar on desktop. Is this OK thing to do?

Yesterday I started using the latest versions of Firefox on my Macbook Air and iPhone. I am signed in with the same login information on both devices. I have turned on Sync in both places, and hit "Sync," but the bookmarks haven't come through. I saw this: " Go to the menu ( on iOS or on Android) and tap Sync and save data." But there is no "Sync and save data" when I click on the iOS menu. Or "ready to scan." Like I said, going around in circles. When I try to use the QR code, I'm consistently told that I have to do it from within the FF app... which I believe I'm doing -- the little QR reader to the right of the search bar. Please see attached shots?

I have sync enabled for all, but on my phone, only the websites are listed for my logins and passwords. They all say "no username", and the passwords are all blank