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Glossary
Bookmark sync
Bookmark sync is a service that copies your saved links between browsers and devices through an account you sign into.
What a sync account carries
Saved links are rarely the only thing that travels. The same sign in usually moves the rest of the browser with them.
Links and folders
The bar, the tree and the order you put them in, with the time each one was added.
History and open tabs
Where you have been and what is open right now on the other device.
Passwords and payment details
Held under the same sign in, which is why a sync password is a separate thing to lose.
Extensions and settings
The set installed on one machine appears on the next one, which makes both machines look alike.
Why it ties accounts together
A sync account is an identifier you hand over on purpose. It sits above the browser, so it survives a cleared profile, a new address and a different device.
Two work accounts signed into one sync account are one person to the provider that holds it. Nothing a browser reports afterwards takes that back.
The links themselves correlate
A shared set of saved pages is as telling as a shared login, because nobody else has exactly that set.
The order of visits leaks
Synced history says which accounts one hand opened and in what order.
It works in the other direction
A profile that looks clean can be joined to your main identity by the sign in alone.
What travels here instead
A profile is moved as one piece rather than field by field. Either you write a transfer file and carry it, or you point the app at a folder your own cloud already syncs.
Cookies, logins, site data and the saved links sit in the profile's own directory, so they arrive together. Caches are left behind, because sites refill them and they are worth nothing.
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The file is encrypted
Live sessions are inside it, so a wrong password gets an honest refusal rather than rubbish.
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The profile keeps its identity
Its id travels with it, so the same profile is the same machine on the second computer.
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An open profile is left alone
Its databases are being written by a running browser, and a copy taken mid flight is a broken one.
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Both sides changed means neither is touched
Overwriting either one would throw away somebody's logins, so the app asks instead.
A fresh profile starts with a row
A new profile on our engine has an empty bookmarks bar, so a short row of everyday sites is written into it once.
It is written only when the profile has no bookmarks file at all, and never again on a later launch. Your own saved links are never rewritten.
Often confused with
Moving a profile
That is a copy of one whole identity to another machine. Sync is a live channel between browsers that keeps them equal.
Your account with us
It holds the name, the group, the scenario, the fingerprint template and the proxy of a profile. Site data stays on your machine.
The Synchronizer
That repeats your typing and clicking across several open windows at once. It carries nothing between machines.
What this does not do
- ARMANOS does not sync bookmarks. There is no screen for it, nothing merges saved links between profiles or machines, and no link of yours is read by the app.
- Saved links move only inside the whole profile. There is no way to send them on their own, and a profile that is open at the time is skipped.
- Nothing about your saved links reaches our account. It carries a profile's name, group, scenario, fingerprint template and proxy, and site data is not among them.
- A sign in already given cannot be called back by a browser. If two accounts shared one sync account, the provider holding it keeps that pair.
Check it
Each line above is a file you can open and a stand that keeps it honest.
- A profile travels whole and leaves its caches behind
- apps/desktop/src/lib/bundle.js · apps/desktop/test/profile-bundle.js
- The folder you choose holds an encrypted file and never an open session
- apps/desktop/src/lib/sessionSync.js · apps/desktop/test/session-sync-folder.js
- The starting row of links is written once and never rewritten
- apps/desktop/src/lib/start-page.js
- The account gets settings and never the logins
- apps/desktop/test/login-stays-local.js
Questions
- Do my saved links reach the second computer?
- Yes, when the whole profile travels. They sit in the profile directory next to the cookies and logins, and everything but the caches is packed.
- Should I sign a profile into a browser sync account?
- It works against what separate profiles are for. One sign in gives the provider a single name above every profile that uses it, and that name is stronger than any value a page reads.
- Can anyone read the file in my cloud folder?
- It is encrypted before it is written, and live sessions are what is inside. Without the password it is bytes, and the password is not kept in that folder.
- Can a site read my bookmarks?
- No. A page has no way to ask for them. What a site sees is where you go, not the list you keep.
- What if I worked on both machines at once?
- Nothing is overwritten. The app says both sides changed since the last exchange and leaves the choice to you, because either answer would throw away real logins.
Next to this
Move a profile without signing anything in
Point the app at a folder your cloud already syncs, and the session arrives on the other machine before the profile starts.