Firefox Sync does not preserve any GUI or search settings

The sync function is supposed to store and restore all of your data. It does fine with add-ons and themes, but none of the GUI changes made to Firefox are preserved. Everything done in the "Customize" menu is left behind, along with any toolbars. Search preferences are also not transferred.
Please tell me there is a solution to this - I do not want to have to switch back to Chrome.

I saw that in the other thread about this issue as well, and did not try it, because it was reported not to work.
I had to create a new boolean - that entry isn't one of the defaults in about:config. I set it to 'true', and Sync started syncing. I waited until it finished, rebooted to my other copy of Windows, and uninstalled its copy of Firefox and deleted %APPDATA%/Mozilla/Firefox to get rid of my preferences and profiles.
I reinstalled Firefox, logged into Sync, and waited for it to sync. The UI is still the default, it's exactly the same as it was without that preference set. I even tried it all again, creating that preference before logging into Sync. The GUI was, again, not changed at all.
That value does not exist by default, and it does nothing, unfortunately.
So, the report was correct. That tip is no good.

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''GLo [[#question-1034473|said]]''
<blockquote>
Mozilla Firefox 34.0.5 for Windows. After update from 33.1.1 Sync stops working, does not automatically login (Reconnect to Sync is showed instead of the Sync account name). Reconnecting to sync only works for the current session (restarting Firefox disables auto login). No error logs on wave\logs directory.
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</blockquote>
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Just forgot to provide the link of the similar issue: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/796251

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