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uMatrix: Point and click matrix to filter net requests according to source, destination and type
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Cloud storage does not work between Windows and Linux #939

Closed irgendsontyp closed 6 years ago

irgendsontyp commented 6 years ago

I am using uMatrix on Arch Linux, all software is up to date. I enabled cloud storage support, connected Firefox with my sync account, and selected "Add ons" in the account preferences. I uploaded my current config to the cloud and synced my Firefox account after that. Then I reboot to Windows 10, current Firefox. Same settings here, sync account is connected. After having synchronized my account, the uMatrix dashboard does not show the information that I have uploaded a config from Linux. Thus, I cannot import the rules to Windows 10 that I previously exported via Arch Linux. But when I open a virtual machine running Ubuntu with the latest version of Firefox, same settings, uMatrix' dashboard displays the uploaded config and I can download it. Why does it work from Arch Linux to Ubuntu but not from Arch Linux to Windows 10?

Please let me know if you require more detailed information. I would really love to be able to sync between Linux and Windows as, unfortunately, I sometimes "have" to use Windows and it would be nice to have all my rules from Arch Linux there, which I mainly use.

gorhill commented 6 years ago

You will have to investigate this on your side, you are better placed than me. uBO just use the storage.sync API, all the rest is handled by Firefox.

ghost commented 6 years ago

Works fine for me between FF58 on Arch, Nightly on Leap and FF58 on Win8.

irgendsontyp commented 6 years ago

I figured out that it works for me if I set the value of the about:config entry "services.sync.log.appender.file.logOnSuccess" to "true" on Windows as well as on Linux (was false initially on both of those).

I found this out just by playing around with the about:config entries which I found filtering for "sync.".

I really do not know why it works because this does not make any sense to me. Maybe there is some kind of routine that clears a cache if you set this preference? Would be strange though.

Maybe someone knows why this works?

Atavic commented 6 years ago

The entry adds a line into the log file when the browser is successfully logged into the sync account.