On Jul 27, 2013, at 1:47 PM, Mark Finkle <[email protected]> wrote:

> Firefox for Android implements Sync using the Android Sync system. This runs 
> in a background process, even when Firefox itself is not running.
> 
> Is there any desire to start doing that for Firefox Desktop or FirefoxOS? I 
> guess this is more than one question though:
> 


Interesting question. For FirefoxOS, I think we're probably going to want a 
sync framework at least similar in spirit to the Android Sync System. Whether 
v1 on FxOS is dependent on that, I don't know. 

For FxD, I think it's out of scope for v1.

-chris



> * Should we use a separate process?
> * Should we allow that process to run when Firefox is not?
> 
> Maybe we deem both of these out of scope for the initial implementation, but 
> are there choices we can make now that would make it easier to evolve in the 
> separate process direction later?
> 
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