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Browser History not fully synced between OSX and Linux

Open alexwykoff opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

  • Did you search for similar issues before submitting this one? Yes

  • Describe the issue you encountered: When Browsing History is enabled under Preferences > Sync > Sync Data, Browsing History is not fully sync-ed between my laptop (mac) and linux vm.

  • Platform (Win7, 8, 10? macOS? Linux distro?): Device 0 is MacBook running 10.11.1 Device 1 is Linux VM running Ubuntu 17.04

  • Brave Version (revision SHA): Device 0/Mac: Brave 0.16.3 rev 9f7c3b7 Muon 3.2.102 libchromiumcontent 59.0.3071.71

Device 1/LinuxVM: Brave 0.15.310 rev 6b5e4e2 Muon 3.0.201 libchromiumcontent 58.0.3029.110

  • Steps to reproduce:
  1. Enable Sync (no changes to settings) on Device 0/Mac.
  2. Enable Sync (no changes to settings) on Device 1/Linux VM.
  3. Bookmarks/site settings were synced as expected.
  4. On Device 0/Mac enable Browsing History Sync.
  5. On Device 1/LinuxVM enable Browsing History Sync.
  • Actual result: Browsing history was not synced.

  • Expected result: Browsing History would be synced. When I opened the Linux VM the next morning I saw that some of the browsing history was synced, but not all.

  • Will the steps above reproduce in a fresh profile? If not what other info can be added?

  • Is this an issue in the currently released version? Device 0/Mac has beta version

  • Can this issue be consistently reproduced?

  • Extra QA steps: n/a

  • Screenshot if needed: Device 0/Mac History: screen shot 2017-06-07 at 10 35 44 am

Device 1/Linux VM (note missing & out of order entries) screen shot 2017-06-07 at 10 37 59 am

  • Any related issues:

alexwykoff avatar Jun 19 '17 15:06 alexwykoff

needs investigation per https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/9303#issuecomment-309128380

alexwykoff avatar Jun 19 '17 15:06 alexwykoff

@srirambv can you give this another spin and make sure it's only syncing history going forward from sync time?

alexwykoff avatar Jun 19 '17 19:06 alexwykoff