Send to device - show device name first

[Yorick1257]

Currently, "send to device" feature on Android follows the "<account name>'s Firefox on <device name>" scheme.

However, as you can see, it makes it nearly impossible to distinguish between different devices.

I suggest it should follow "<device name>, <account name>'s Firefox" scheme. For example: 
HomePC, Bob's Firefox

In any case, "Firefox" should be either moved to the end or removed entirely*, since it doesn't seem to convey any significant information as it stands.
*Probably not, I suspect that a beta version would have a different name

[Jon]

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[andrewmc]

Sad to see this hasn't got more votes, although I suppose it is a minor annoyance in a minor feature. I usually prefix my device names with "amc-" and have the same issue:

Screenshot of Firefox on Android's share menu showing three machine names. Two of them are identical because the full machine name gets cut off.

The middle one is my Windows install, but it's a 50/50 guess which of the other two is my laptop vs my Linux machine. I could share to all devices, but I only log into Windows every so often and don't want dozens of tabs popping when I do. Very annoying.

I like the idea of putting the machine name first, or letting us see the full name by tapping and holding? Just something to make them actually identifitable.

[andrewmc]

My previous reply hasn't been approved yet, but for any future travellers: I just learned you can cutomise the name that appears by going to Settings > Sync on each device. Can't believe I didn't notice this before – it's been annoying me for ages!