LWN.net Logo

Why do user agent developers hate rsync?

Why do user agent developers hate rsync?

Posted Jun 26, 2012 21:59 UTC (Tue) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
In reply to: Why do user agent developers hate rsync? by bjartur
Parent article: Firefox for Android may become your favorite mobile browser (ars technica)

That would break if users ever added bookmarks or cookies on the mobile device. Firefox Sync works in both directions (or N directions, since you can have an arbitrary number of devices).


(Log in to post comments)

Why do user agent developers hate rsync?

Posted Jun 27, 2012 0:30 UTC (Wed) by khc (subscriber, #45209) [Link]

in practice, firefox sync seems to only show me open tabs from the last device. So if I have 3 devices with Sync, I can't see the tabs from the LRU device.

Copyright © 2013, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds