Unable to log into FIrefox Mozilla account for active dynamic syncing of bookmarks "Blocked by Content Security Policy"

[Legoman]

Needing some help please with how to effectively get around the issue of not being able to log into a Mozilla Firefox account to sync bookmarks between browsers because of a stupid warning screen that looks like this:

No work-arounds please. I do know how to export/import bookmarks from one browser to another, but what I need is a properly dynamic syncing solution such that when I edit a bookmark in one browser, that edit is immediately recreated on all other browsers at or near the same time.

The main (source) browser is FF v110, but the target (destination) browser is FF v52.8 ESR. It is this old FF v52.8 that won't let me log in to sync. Yes I know it's old and insecure and all the other tropes about using old browsers, but I have no choice because it has a no longer updated extension installed for which there is no exact equivalent available for later versions and nothing else that performs in the same way. It is an extension that is used constantly every single day that simply cannot be left behind, so the browser needs to stay for that one and only extension, whilst everything else is done from the newer version.

I have searched high and low for a solution to this seemingly very common problem that a lot of users complain about, but nothing I try has worked. Any helpful suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[BamSec1]

@Legoman The reason is probably because you are still on Win7... I have the same problem with my old Win7 PC which I also want to keep because I find Win11 on my other PC not as user-friendly as Win7 is.

Mozilla says it can not update the latest browsers because I am still on Win7, but I'm happy with that, because exactly like you, I need this older browser for some reasons.

Of course, on my Win11 PC it updates every thing and syncs all the browsers I use on that one.

I'm sorry to say, but I guess you won't be able to sync between older and the newer browsers.

[Legoman]

You mean it's likely to be a Mozilla-side server connection setting that I have no control over thing, whereby they're deliberately cutting off older browsers like 52.8 ESR in order to "incentivise" technophobe Amish luddites like me still stuck on W7 into "up"grading to the latest telemetry infested… <cough>, whoops, I mean spyware riddled… <cough>, whoops, I mean malware data-selling… <cough>, whoops, I mean ad-delivering POS version of their Google Chrome clone browser instead?

Thank you for the insight and explanation anyway. I will live with it as is and save myself a lot of time trying to fix something that is out of my control.

[BamSec1]

On 9/15/2024 at 3:08 AM, Legoman said:

I will live with it as is and save myself a lot of time trying to fix something that is out of my control.

So will I! And an other reason why I want to keep my old Win7 PC (from 2010!) is because it is still as fast as it was when I bought it...

Only Win7 and an anti-virus are installed, all other programs are portable ones; Total-Commander, Firefox, Notepad++, a few music programs, an old Adobe Photoshop, Sound Forge 11, and loads of music albums: a total of 70+ TB saved on 6 Hard Disks (4x20TB and 2x 16TB), and still having some free space to save more on them. Of course all are on backup HDs. 

No way I want to get rid of this, still fantastic OLD PC with a 7 port USB 3.0 hub, native graphics card @3440x1440px and Curved 34" MSI Pro MP341CQ UWQHD monitor.

I still prefer to work on this older one than on my newer (2021) PC with Win11.

[Legoman]

On 9/17/2024 at 12:35 AM, BamSec1 said:

So will I! And an other reason why I want to keep my old Win7 PC (from 2010!) is because it is still as fast as it was when I bought it...

Only Win7 and an anti-virus are installed, all other programs are portable ones; Total-Commander, Firefox, Notepad++, a few music programs, an old Adobe Photoshop, Sound Forge 11, and loads of music albums: a total of 70+ TB saved on 6 Hard Disks (4x20TB and 2x 16TB), an sttill having some free space to save more on them. Of course all are on backup HDs. 

No way I want to get rid of this, still fantastic OLD PC with a 7 port USB 3.0 hub, native graphics card @3440x1440px and Curved 34" MSI Pro MP341CQ UWQHD monitor.

I still prefer to work on this older one than on my newer (2021) PC with Win11.

Holy crap that is a borlz-out computer you've got there! I thought I was taking the p!ss a bit with having 7 x HDD installed in my W7 machine, but you've blown me out of the water with 70+TB! I've only got something like 16TB installed in mine and up against you, that's barely even trying!

That said, all my HDD are second hand, salvaged from the bin left overs from other people who've gone full-corporate and decided to sell themselves to their retail overlords and bought laptops or surface pads or gone full SSD only with tablet computing and didn't know what to do with their old spinny disks. This is why I needed a copy of SpinRite so I could resurrect all this old tech and save it from landfill.

[Legoman]

I'm nowhere near you BamSec1, but yesterday I did save two HDDs from landfill out of an old CCTV system being decommissioned. 3.5" WD purples. One a 6TB the other 4TB. Needed to replace a very sick and dying 1TB drive that not even the most aggressive interrogation by SpinRite could resurrect. Popped the 6TB in and found it completely degaussed back to RAW state. Absolutely nothing readable on it. So off to format on a dedicated computer for the task with no other functions. The drive is smooth, cool and quiet, just like a bought brand new one. The formatting is going at a rate of 1% every 7 minutes! This is gonna take 12hrs just to format a 6TB drive!

My god, is this normal? How long does it take to format a 20TB drive? You'd be measuring that in days, surely?

[BamSec1]

20TB hard drives are from a newer generation and format faster than my older 8TB drives. I never measured the time as I usually format my new drives before going to bed. LOL

Some finished when I woke up while some were still formatting.

Pity you didn't do a quick format of the HD, and then tried with, for example, EaseUS Partition Master to recover what was on the drive. After a deep format, the chances to recover something is almost nil.

Here snapshot from my disks and desktop: (to see the full size of the 1st picture, open the link in a new tab)

You can see I still have a 3.5" floppy drive... through the years it saved me 2 times fixing the ntldr of my system because it was not readable anymore. Reinstalling it with the floppy was enough for the system to boot again.

 

[Legoman]

4 hours ago, BamSec1 said:

20TB hard drives are from a newer generation and format faster than my older 8TB drives. I never measured the time as I usually format my new drives before going to bed. LOL

Some finished when I woke up while some were still formatting.

Pity you didn't do a quick format of the HD, and then tried with, for example, EaseUS Partition Master to recover what was on the drive.

You can see I still have a 3.5" floppy drive... through the years it saved me 2 times fixing the ntldr of my system because it was not readable anymore. Reinstalling it with the floppy was enough for the system to boot again.

 

Honestly, I'm not remotely interested in what used to be on the drives. It would have only been CCTV camera footage most probably in a proprietary encrypted format readable only with the CCTV software that created it, which I don't have anyway. I've seen ex-CCTV harddisk recordings before from the CCTV systems inside public transport like trains, and it's not in any conventionally accessible format I've ever seen before. Just massive contiguous machine language data files with random names split at 500GB sizes. Nothing you can do anything useful with, so not worth messing around. I could still do what you suggest to the 4TB drive. I haven't installed that one yet, but I suspect both drives have been degaussed back to RAW, maybe even professionally by the CCTV installers when the system was decommissioned, so one would think they know what they're doing in terms of wiping data off drives before re-sale.

The owner doing the selling was not a computer geek by any means. He had no idea what they were worth and couldn't even answer the question whether they were SATA or SAS. He had no idea what I was talking about, and he wasn't faking it.

I do know for sure the drives were from a professionally installed CCTV system. I bought them still screwed down to the internal metal chassis plate from inside the CCTV case box, complete with the USB data cables and the custom-soldered single Molex to four SATA power cable still attached. That's how random the sale was. Just take the whole thing from the steel chassis rail to the SATA cables and everything in between!

I ditched my floppy drive long ago into the E-waste bin. I hated the graunching noise it made on detection during start-up and the extra time all that took. When I need to rescue my computer from a boot fail I just adjust the BIOS and boot either from CD-ROM or UEFI USB. Works everytime.

[Legoman]

BTW, you need the 3D icon library installed in your TC
 

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