Fedora 40 LXQt: Firefox Sync doesn't work

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TL;DR: I can’t enable Firefox Sync in Firefox. It shows me an “Account disconnected” error immediately after logging in. Tried clearing a profile, installing Librewolf, different versions of Mozilla using Appimages and the problem persists. Of course, I removed ~.mozilla folder every time I tried something new. After all of that, I’ve moved to Brave and synced with Brave on another machine. Sync chain disappears after a reboot. What to do?

Hello everybody! Last week, I installed Fedora 40 LXQt using Fedora Everything (netinst) iso on my secondary laptop - Acer Aspire E3-112.

Specs 
System:
  Host: fedora-acer Kernel: 6.11.4-201.fc40.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    compiler: gcc v: 2.41-37.fc40 clocksource: tsc
  Desktop: LXQt v: 1.4.0 tk: Qt v: 5.15.12 wm: Openbox v: 3.6.1
    with: lxqt-panel tools: xscreensaver,xscreensaver-systemd vt: 2 dm: SDDM
    Distro: Fedora Linux 40 (Forty)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire E3-112 v: V1.16
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Acer model: R2 v: Type2 - A01 Board Version
    serial: <superuser required> part-nu: Aspire E3-112_0843_1_16
    uuid: <superuser required> UEFI-[Legacy]: Insyde v: 1.16 date: 10/20/2015
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Celeron N2840 bits: 64 type: MCP
    smt: <unsupported> arch: Silvermont rev: 8 cache: L1: 112 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1000 min/max: 500/2582 cores: 1: 1000 2: 1000
    bogomips: 8666
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-7 ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0f31
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Chicony HD WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b469 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.3 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.21x7.99")
    s-diag: 414mm (16.31")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: LG Display 0x0497 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 136
    size: 256x144mm (10.08x5.67") diag: 294mm (11.6") modes: 1366x768
  API: OpenGL v: 4.2 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.1.7 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 3.0
    direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics (BYT)
    device-ID: 8086:0f31
  API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:0f04 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.11.4-201.fc40.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.9 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:08b2 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: e2:1b:52:08:11:fb
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 1000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: 2c:60:0c:0a:fc:46
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-2.1:4 chip-ID: 8087:07dc
    class-ID: e001
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: 48:51:B7:7D:B7:56
    bt-v: 4.0 lmp-v: 6 class-ID: 7c010c
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 22.56 GiB (9.7%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS543225A7A384 size: 232.89 GiB
    speed: 3.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: E20A1246HJ4K9D fw-rev: A60W
    temp: 30 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 231.88 GiB used: 22.31 GiB (9.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda3
  ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 249.4 MiB (25.6%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-3: /home size: 231.88 GiB used: 22.31 GiB (9.6%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 3.7 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 4 GiB available: 3.7 GiB used: 1.31 GiB (35.4%)
  Processes: 233 Power: uptime: 43m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 255 target: graphical (5)
    default: graphical
  Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm Compilers: N/A Shell: Bash
    v: 5.2.26 running-in: qterminal inxi: 3.3.36

At first, everything seemed to be fine. There aren’t many programs by default, and the Flatpak is not included too. So, I decided to install everything using DNF and AppImages, 'cause Flatpak takes too much space on my hard disk and significantly slows down the OS. But this is another story.

What I did is install RPM Fusion and codecs using the official guides:

https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia

Commands I typed 
sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf config-manager --enable fedora-cisco-openh264
sudo dnf update @multimedia --setopt="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin

Next, I installed the apps I use, which are available in Fedora 40 + RPM Fusion repos:

sudo dnf install inxi bleachbit blueman mc vim w3m featherpad htop putty setserial screen nmap cifs-utils libsmbclient gvfs-smb qlipper doublecmd-qt meld gtkhash vim-gtk3 lm_sensors cpu-x synapse ffmpeg simplescreenrecorder filezilla remmina audacity pinta ark kdenlive gimp torbrowser-launcher brasero shntool cuetools

Then, installed Firefox:

Installation process + dependencies 
wynz@fedora-acer:~$ sudo dnf install firefox
[sudo] password for wynz: 
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Updates                     19 kB/s |  25 kB     00:01    
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Updates                    1.4 MB/s | 4.1 MB     00:02    
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:10 ago on Mon 28 Oct 2024 12:16:31 PM EET.
Dependencies resolved.
================================================================================
 Package                  Arch    Version          Repository              Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 firefox                  x86_64  131.0.3-1.fc40   updates                 77 M
Installing dependencies:
 mozilla-filesystem       x86_64  1.9-33.fc40      fedora                 8.4 k
 mozilla-openh264         x86_64  2.4.1-2.fc40     fedora-cisco-openh264  428 k
 pulseaudio-utils         x86_64  16.1-8.fc40      updates                 82 k
Installing weak dependencies:
 firefox-langpacks        x86_64  131.0.3-1.fc40   updates                 48 M
 speech-dispatcher-utils  x86_64  0.11.5-5.fc40    updates                 26 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  6 Packages

Total download size: 125 M
Installed size: 315 M
Is this ok [Y/n]: 
Downloading Packages:
(1/6): mozilla-filesystem-1.9-33.fc40.x86_64.rp  12 kB/s | 8.4 kB     00:00    
(2/6): mozilla-openh264-2.4.1-2.fc40.x86_64.rpm 269 kB/s | 428 kB     00:01    
(3/6): pulseaudio-utils-16.1-8.fc40.x86_64.rpm  191 kB/s |  82 kB     00:00    
(4/6): speech-dispatcher-utils-0.11.5-5.fc40.x8  87 kB/s |  26 kB     00:00    
(5/6): firefox-langpacks-131.0.3-1.fc40.x86_64. 3.0 MB/s |  48 MB     00:16    
(6/6): firefox-131.0.3-1.fc40.x86_64.rpm        3.3 MB/s |  77 MB     00:23    
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                           4.9 MB/s | 125 MB     00:25     
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Running scriptlet: firefox-131.0.3-1.fc40.x86_64                          1/1 
  Preparing        :                                                        1/1 
  Installing       : mozilla-filesystem-1.9-33.fc40.x86_64                  1/6 
  Installing       : mozilla-openh264-2.4.1-2.fc40.x86_64                   2/6 
  Installing       : pulseaudio-utils-16.1-8.fc40.x86_64                    3/6 
  Installing       : speech-dispatcher-utils-0.11.5-5.fc40.x86_64           4/6 
  Installing       : firefox-langpacks-131.0.3-1.fc40.x86_64                5/6 
  Installing       : firefox-131.0.3-1.fc40.x86_64                          6/6 
  Running scriptlet: firefox-131.0.3-1.fc40.x86_64                          6/6 

Installed:
  firefox-131.0.3-1.fc40.x86_64                                                 
  firefox-langpacks-131.0.3-1.fc40.x86_64                                       
  mozilla-filesystem-1.9-33.fc40.x86_64                                         
  mozilla-openh264-2.4.1-2.fc40.x86_64                                          
  pulseaudio-utils-16.1-8.fc40.x86_64                                           
  speech-dispatcher-utils-0.11.5-5.fc40.x86_64                                  

Complete!

Opened it and tried to sign in.

Entire step-by-step process with screenshots

I’ve tried to sign in with every method I could imagine: creating new profile, performing Firefox refresh, running in safe mode from terminal (gave me nothing useful except some usual GTK layout rendering warnings), downloading different versions with AppImages, trying LibreWolf… And of course the behavior is the same everywhere.

I was running out of options. As I said, I installed Fedora LXQt the same way in a VM on my main notebook. And guess what, it works even without RPM Fusion! I have no idea what’s happening… So, I decided to quit using Firefox and downloaded Brave. Set up Sync Chain and connected with my primary machine. It was syncing until a reboot, when the chain just disconnected like I’ve never used it before…

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Please tell me what logs to send and how to get them. Thanks in advance.

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that image is not firefox it is brave so if you try to sync firefox you need to have firefox on all devices and log in with your firefox account

if you want to use brave sync there is no account you create sync code and then install brave on all your devices and use that code to enable sync

there is no cros sync on difrent browsers

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Thanks for repling. Yeah, I know that. I don’t try to sync between 2 different browsers. I want to enable Firefox Sync in Firefox, which gives me a strange error. Look inside “Entire step-by-step process with screenshots” spoiler first.

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you running containerized apps? you have blocked all cookies?

i am not familiar on LXQT but does it have any secret.service manager like KDE has Kwallet where it stores this kind of info encrypted to keep signings

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I use Firefox from the default Fedora repos. I chose a usual LXQt spin without containerizing stuff.

In Firefox, the settings are left default, which should not affect the login operation. Didn’t touch anything in Brave too. It’s set by default to block third-party cookies, but doesn’t seem like it’s clearing something on exit:

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I remember I set up KDE wallet with an empty password. It asked me to do that when I opened Brave for the first time.

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Found something unusual:

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I have no clue why it is enabled by default… Will try to disable each option now.

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Oh my God, you were right!!!

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Thanks a lot, you’ve pointed me to the right direction!

To all who will stumble upon this issue in the future:

  1. Sign in
  2. Get an Account disconnected error
  3. Close Fireofx
  4. Open it again
  5. Go to about:config
  6. Set each privacy.clearOnShutdown and services.sync.prefs.sync.privacy.clearOnShutdown option to false using a 2-arrow button near the scrollbar
  7. Close Firefox
  8. Open it again
  9. Click on your account emblem with a yellow warning sign
  10. Click on Account disconnected message
  11. Choose sign in on the settings page
  12. Enter your password once again
  13. And that’s all! You’re in!

Hope that helps :slightly_smiling_face:

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Glad to get it sorted sometimes it is just simple things that makes the life miserable

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