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Re:Firefox 70 by mistermann on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @12:05PM (#21325279)
Can each of those be turned on or off per device, and dont get sneakily turned back on during upgrades?
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Re:Firefox 70 by johnchristopher on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @12:58PM (#21325959)
edit: Sorry for anyone I misled. You can't opt a particular kind of data out of syncing per device. You can only enable/disable for the whole account.

Yes, each (bookmarks, history, passwords, tabs ) can be turned on or off per device basis.

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Re:Firefox 70 by mnoorenberghe on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:50PM (#21326624)
This is incorrect AFAIK. The sync toggle for a data type is for the whole account, not per-device.
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Re:Firefox 70 by johnchristopher on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @02:05PM (#21326808)
You are right. Always thought it worked like that but indeed it is for the whole account and not per device. My bad.
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Re:Firefox 70 by maximente on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @12:22PM (#21325491)
by way of logging in/out, yes
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