Rebrand Firefox Account in english locales

[dannycolin]

Change strings containing Firefox Account to use a generic term "account" instead. I modified the 3 english locales and we'd like to land this patch before pushing a new version on AMO so contributors have time to update other locales.

[flodolo]

All changes to existing strings require a new string ID.

Also, please only update en, the other variants will be fixed in Pontoon by each locale.

[flodolo]

This ain't American English? Same later ;-)

[dannycolin]

All changes to existing strings require a new string ID.

By curiosity, is this always the case? Also, is there some good practices to update it without writing a completely different id (e.g. my-string-id-v2)?

[flodolo]

By curiosity, is this always the case? Also, is there some good practices to update it without writing a completely different id (e.g. my-string-id-v2)?

See this doc for more details (adding a number to the previous ID works)
https://mozilla-l10n.github.io/documentation/localization/making_string_changes.html

It's not black and white, but in most cases (like 99%) you want a new ID.

[flodolo]

Is there a specific reason to not use Synchronization?

We can use Sync here, but that's just short for Synchronization when the space is limited, is not a feature anymore
https://acorn.firefox.com/latest/content/word-list/s-t-D8DB7Wjd

[dannycolin]

I wasn't sure if we also changed the way to refer to Sync (as in Firefox Sync). So do you think using "Synchronization" for the title and "Enable synchronatization" for the permission string would be better in this case?

[flodolo]

I think it would make sense (look out for typos, Enable synchronization).

[flodolo]

LGTM. Let me know if it's ready to merge or if I should wait.

[dannycolin]

It's ready to be merged because we'd like to give time to the translators to update their locales before we push a new release of MAC :).