Mozilla Firefox might be a good browser in general, but their support documents have always sucked.

Mozilla Firefox might be a good browser in general, but their support documents have always sucked. They seem written by people  who already know how to do things and how stuff is supposed to work, but forget that people reading it probably don't.

I've been using a system whereby I have a networked profile for Firefox, in order to keep everything synced between PCs. I did that because I used to use XSynch (an add-on) but that had a habit of wiping out bookmarks on occasion! The trouble with the networked profile is that I can only use it from one PC at a time. Granted, there's only me here, but sometimes you need a browser running on a PC you're trying to fix, in addition to another one you're already running.

So I thought "maybe I'll try Firefox Sync instead". I created an account yesterday from the media PC, and created a new profile on the RecRoom PC to test it with. I logged in under the new profile and followed the instructions and the Firefoxes were supposedly thereafter synced. Only, no change, no sign of anything happening. I looked up the help documentation and nowhere is there a description or an image of what syncing should look like! 😠

So bugger it back to the networked profile. That at least works.