Move Firefox Settings (including passwords) from MS to Linux?

richardbirks · 15 Jul 2007 at 15:07

Does anyone know of any half decent software (or even a webpage with instructions) that details how you can migrate your firefox user settings from Windows into Linux; most importantly the stored passwords.

In order to fully convert the g/f to the darkside I need to drag her firefox profile for XP to Linux and she's hopeless with passwords and they're all locked inside her firefox configuration.

While she could well do the "password" reminder on a website by website basis, I'm thinking there must be something out there to do this automagically.

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Richard

SiriusB · 15 Jul 2007 at 15:52

Firefox profiles are usually found in

C: / Documents and Settings/user/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/

Just find the file and then in your Linux dump it in

/home/<username>/.mozilla/firefox/

Should work

Might not though

richardbirks · 16 Jul 2007 at 10:04

SiriusB said:
Should work

Like the sound of this...

SirusB said:
Might not though

Not so sure about this

I reckon it's a totally different file structure, but I'll have a look and let you know how I get on.

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Richard.

SiriusB · 16 Jul 2007 at 10:13

The "Might not though" is just my way of saying "I haven't actually tried this" but there is no reason why it shouldn't.

richardbirks · 16 Jul 2007 at 22:58

I knew that... honest...

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Richard

marc2003 · 17 Jul 2007 at 16:04

it worked for me. i just manually edited my prefs.js to remove any settings that point to the windows filesystem. all extensions/cookies/passwords were fine.

richardbirks · 17 Jul 2007 at 22:23

marc2003 said:
it worked for me. i just manually edited my prefs.js to remove any settings that point to the windows filesystem. all extensions/cookies/passwords were fine.

Result! Thanks chaps! Much appreciated. Didn't think it was going to be as simple as that.

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Richard