Remove "Sign in to Sync" from the menu

added TorBrowserTeam201507R component::applications/tor browser owner::tbb-team priority::medium resolution::fixed status::closed tbb-5.0a tbb-usability type::task labels

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Summary: Clean up Torbrowser's UI for 5.0 stable to Clean up Tor Browser's UI for 5.0 stable

I removed 'Share this page' in #16510 (moved). The only other thing we might consider for this is removing 'Sign in to Sync', though that seems to require a XUL patch.

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Summary: Clean up Tor Browser's UI for 5.0 stable to Remove "Sign in to Sync" from the menu

Kathy and I can create a XUL patch to remove the "Sign in to Sync" item. Should we add a pref. to allow people to turn this back on or do we want to remove Firefox Sync entirely as a feature? If we want to remove it entirely and unconditionally, we should also remove the following: about:preferences#sync about:accounts about:sync-log about:sync-progress about:sync-tabs I am not sure how much work that will be though.

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Cc: N/A to brade, mcs

Replying to mcs:

Kathy and I can create a XUL patch to remove the "Sign in to Sync" item. Should we add a pref. to allow people to turn this back on or do we want to remove Firefox Sync entirely as a feature? If we want to remove it entirely and unconditionally, we should also remove the following: about:preferences#sync about:accounts about:sync-log about:sync-progress about:sync-tabs I am not sure how much work that will be though.

There is still #10368 (moved) and I think we can keep the feature until we clearly get the impression this is actually harmful to use. Thus, removing it from the toolbar seems to be enough to me and ideally we have a pref to make it somehow available again.

Replying to gk:

There is still #10368 (moved) and I think we can keep the feature until we clearly get the impression this is actually harmful to use. Thus, removing it from the toolbar seems to be enough to me and ideally we have a pref to make it somehow available again.

OK; that makes sense. After I posted my comment here I found several related tickets: #7188 (closed), #10367 (moved), and #10368 (moved).