User Services/Sync/SetupSyncNext

Overview

Here's where you find all things on setting up Firefox Accounts and New Sync

Please log any bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mozilla%20Services (component Server:Firefox Accounts)

Desktop FxA

• Recommend using a test profile as this may corrupt your sync data, NOT recoverable.

Servers URLs

Current Dev URLs:

identity.fxaccounts.auth.uri=https://api-accounts.dev.lcip.org/v1 firefox.accounts.remoteUrl=https://accounts.dev.lcip.org/?service=sync

Production URLs: Content server: accounts.firefox.com Auth server: api.accounts.firefox.com Scrypt server: scrypt.accounts.firefox.com Verifier: verifier.accounts.firefox.com (this one may be a little mushy) https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-auth-server/issues/295

Desktop Firefox Accounts Setup

• Get nightly desktop or android Firefox > 1/16/2014
  • http://nightly.mozilla.org/
• Launch Fx with new profile (run cmd for mac): /Applications/FirefoxNightly.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -p
• enable FxA: in about:config context menu click and choose add pref:
  • identity.fxaccounts.enabled (as boolean)
  • set it’s value as true
• confirm you have these set:
  • firefox.accounts.remoteUrl
  • identity.fxaccounts.auth.uri
• restart Nightly
• go into file menu Tools > Setup Sync
• Create Account
• Verify account via email
• See Sync logs or start a new profile and

Mobile Android Firefox Setup

• current plan not available in FxNightly, coming soon.

Sync debugging

• goto about:config
• search by 'sync.log'
• set services.sync.log.appender.file.level=Trace
• view logs here: about:sync-log