Firefox Sync Architecture
Interactive 5-Stage Data & Auth Pipeline Flow
Payload: Standard (<2MB)
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01 / CLIENT & AUTHENTICATION
02 / CORE ROUTING & TRANSACTIONS
03 / METADATA STORE
DETOUR / LARGE PAYLOAD (>2MB)
04 / RESPONSE ASSEMBLY & STAMP
HAWK
BEARER
BATCH
META ONLY
>2MB STREAM
GCS POINTER
COMMIT RESULT
200 OK + X-LAST-MODIFIED
FIREFOX CLIENT
TOKENSERVER / HAWK
REQUEST ROUTER
TX WRAPPER
METADATA DB
GCS PAYLOAD BUCKET
RESPONSE ASSEMBLY
SYSTEM READY
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