When going to use Adobe express on Firefox it comes up with the following message, saying that this browser doesn’t play well with others and that I should use Safari, Google Chrome, or Microsoft Edge instead.

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    I try to do my part to resist the monoculture by using Firefox everywhere I can, from mobile to my work computers. It’s true that I do run into sites that just break because everybody uses Chrome. Well, I’m somebody who isn’t using it. I will be the change I want to see in the world, even if in the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t matter.

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      I love Firefox and have used it for years, but lately it’s development seems troubled. Features aren’t working like they used to, and increasingly they are throwing more bloat at the whole thing.

      I worry it’s not long for this world at this rate.

      Oh yeah, and if the desktop Firefox could just fucking sync my passwords to mobile, that would be great.

      Gort helped get my logins synced, it’s even working on iOS now, bless this place.

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        My desktop Firefox syncs my passwords to Firefox for Android quite well.

        However, yeah, I do think that Firefox’s development over the years has gone a bit awry with the attempt to out-Chrome Chrome. It’s still the best browser out there, though.

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          I wish mine would, I just spent the last three days updating 244 passwords to be more secure, and I deleted all the old ones in Firefox desktop, imported the new ones via a file into Firefox desktop, and it’s been three days and they’ve yet to show up on iOS or android mobile devices.

          No amount of clicking sync anywhere does anything, lol.

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            Ouch, that’s not good.

            Have you tried force stopping and deleting the cache in Firefox for Android? Maybe you might need to clear its data and reinstall Firefox for Android again, which might force Sync to work. It’s possible your profile is corrupted. You might well lose some settings if Sync doesn’t repopulate, but it seems that you’ve already lost stuff due to Sync not working.

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              Yeah I tried that.

              Cache first, then data, then uninstall.

              Just nada.

              I’ve tried logging in with the credentials manually, signs in fine but no sync.

              I’ve tried logging on fresh in mobile, using that “scan to add another Firefox device” setting on desktop. Still nada.

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                Is there a possibility that it’s an issue with the desktop Firefox? Maybe it’s sending “garbage” to Sync due to profile corruption, etc. The passwords in your desktop Firefox work fine? Maybe try clearing its cache, if you haven’t already, or go nuclear by creating a new profile, then set it up as you want, and adding your passwords, then using that new profile to see if you can sync your passwords, etc. Sorry, but other than that drastic action, I’m out of ideas.

                One other thing, do your browser history and bookmarks sync?

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                  Damn bro, you’re better than tech support.

                  Alright you’ve inspired me to try nuking it on desktop since I only really care about the passwords anyways and I have access to those in a CSV file.

                  Brb lol

                  *edit: okay nuking the desktop version and clean signing in with my account fixed it for Android! Thanks bro! It didn’t do shit for iOS but that’s irrelevant since all the same passwords are stored in iCloud. (iOS just took a little longer to sync over!) This is great, so appreciate you taking so much time to help.

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          I’d never heard of this so I had to look it up.

          Librewolf is an independent, community-led version of Firefox that focuses on privacy, security, and user freedom. It offers advanced privacy and security settings and patches that allow users to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting.

          God bless you for sharing this knowledge with me.

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          Librewolf is great but the fact they make it so ridiculously difficult to make google the default search engine is soo dumb.

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            Is it specifically about Google? I don’t use it for years and other engines are really easy. Try to use searxNG then.

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      @henfredemars @csolisr I feel like most people complaining about Firefox “being slow” haven’t tried it in 5 years or run Chrome on a machine that has enough resources to run a million tabs in both browsers, simultaneously 😅 Firefox is a fantastic browser, with brilliant dev tools, separate spaces for social media accounts without sharing cookies etc. Everything works perfectly, aside from the occasional website that blocks browsers by user agent like it’s 2003

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      @henfredemars @csolisr I do the same, and last week we even found a partner at work that published a TLS certificate that worked only with Chrome because it lacked the intermediate CA cert (which Chrome bundled, don’t know why).

      At first they didn’t budge, but when a WS started failing when called from code they had to fix it… 🤦‍♂️