Question Prepare for the new installation: which Data to save in Firefox browser?

[thedighubs]

and good morning dear community,


wants to set up a new operating system on a notebook. To do this, I would like to back up all of the data from Firefox. These are

a. The passwords: I believe it is a human readable CSV file And


b: the bookmarks (I need those too); Are they in a FF folder? Ps is there anything else I shouldn't forget?

Best regards 😉

 

[mikeymikec]

Assuming Windows:

C:\users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla

Contains all of your Firefox profiles. You can literally copy that folder to a new computer (regardless of the new username) and 99% of the time it will work, giving you your Firefox profile completely as it was on the old PC.

You can back up bookmarks and passwords separately if you like:

Firefox menu > Passwords > three dots top right corner
Firefox menu > Bookmarks > Manage bookmarks > Import and backup > Export

 

[Ken g6]

For Linux, copy your ~/.mozilla directory. They're likely interchangeable between OSes.

 

[mikeymikec]

For Linux, copy your ~/.mozilla directory. They're likely interchangeable between OSes.

When I migrated from Windows to Linux in 2018, I did this and I think Firefox acquired some weird quirks and I ended up doing a profile refresh at the least. Interestingly I (inadvertently) did this with my Thunderbird profile too (prefs.js has a load of absolute file references) and it worked surprisingly well 😀