Unable to sync or import settings in new firefox installation

[sunng87]

First of all, thank you for the awesome addon. I have been your user for more than ten years. In my new Firefox installation, verison 79, FoxyProxy was synced but no configuration is available. When I use import settings, it says the operation was success but configuration is still empty.

I'm getting these errors from debug console:

• Error: mode is set to undefined but no active proxySetting is found with that id. Disabling Due To Error
• Unchecked lastError value: Error: QuotaExceededError: storage.sync API call exceeded its quota limitations.
• Unchecked lastError value: Error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.

Let me know if you need more information for my case.

[ericjung]

@sunng87 hi, it looks like you are affected by this new Firefox "feature":

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/07/09/changes-to-storage-sync-in-firefox-79

This user had same problem:
#94

But there is no resolution right now except to turn off Synchronize Settings.

Sorry about that. I will look into optimizing the use of storage, but that is just a band-aid: there are now hard limits on synchronized storage in Firerfox that you will always hit at some point

[sunng87]

Thanks for fast response.

To be clear, users experiencing this issue will need to edit the exported json to set sync to false and import it again.

[ericjung]

users experiencing this issue will need to edit the exported json to set sync to false

Wait, what? Why can't you turn it off here, where it says Synchronize Settings ?

If that is not working for some reason, I can add logic that tries to prevent the user from adding too much data to the extension with warning messages -- but only if Synchronize Settings is on.

[sunng87]

@ericjung because if you turn off the sync toggle and import your settings, the toggle is opened again and nothing really imported.

[ericjung]

@sunng87 , are you using Firefox Portable? What version of Firefox and on operating system (so I can try to reproduce this)

[sunng87]

@ericjung I'm using Firefox from ArchLinux repo

[ericjung]

@sunng87 please open the file you want to import in a text editor. Then remove:

`` "sync": true

usually it is at the end but not always.

Save it and import again. Now "synchronize settings" is not automatically turned on.

[sunng87]

@ericjung Thank you! That's exact what I said

To be clear, users experiencing this issue will need to edit the exported json to set sync to false and import it again.