Transferring Firefox settings / add-ons between PCs

Misiowiec · 22 Sep 2008 at 09:13

Does anyone know if it's possible to transfer all the settings from a Firefox installation from one PC to another? I'd like to transfer:

- saved passwords
- add-ons (along with settings, e.g. the allowed sites for NoScript etc)
- themes

And ideally I'd like to do this in one go saving me a lot of manual work.

huppy · 22 Sep 2008 at 09:41

Head to %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles and you should have a <something>.default directory in there containing your all your personalised user settings.

Copy this to the same location on the 2nd PC and all the passwords, add-ons and themes should be there also.

This might be slightly different, but similar, for backing up an XP install.

Edit: check http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Backing+up+your+information

Shadows1990 · 22 Sep 2008 at 10:28

Does this work going form FF3 XP to FF3 on a Vista machine?

Misiowiec · 22 Sep 2008 at 10:37

huppy said:
Head to %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles and you should have a <something>.default directory in there containing your all your personalised user settings.

Copy this to the same location on the 2nd PC and all the passwords, add-ons and themes should be there also.

This might be slightly different, but similar, for backing up an XP install.

Edit: check http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Backing+up+your+information

Sounds good, will try that. Thanks.

Shadows1990 said:
Does this work going form FF3 XP to FF3 on a Vista machine?

Exactly what I'm hoping to do, will try tonight.

marc2003 · 22 Sep 2008 at 10:39

i've used the same profile on xp and vista no problems.

Misiowiec · 22 Sep 2008 at 11:08

marc2003 said:
i've used the same profile on xp and vista no problems.

Perfect

tolien · 22 Sep 2008 at 12:09

You can move profiles anywhere you like, even to linux and OSX. At most, the profiles.ini will need editing.

Shadows1990 · 22 Sep 2008 at 12:11

marc2003 said:
i've used the same profile on xp and vista no problems.

Thanks

Rainmaker · 22 Sep 2008 at 12:16

If you're on a Windows machine, I can highly recommend MozBackup

It lets you backup and restore profiles for Thunderbird and Firefox, and more precisely allows you to pick and choose which parts of your profile (settings, bookmarks, passwords, cookies etc) to backup or not backup

It's very small and light, and easy to use. Worth a look if nothing else.

TheVoice · 22 Sep 2008 at 12:42

There's an extension called FEBE which I believe can do the same sort of thing.

Misiowiec · 22 Sep 2008 at 20:20

huppy said:
Head to %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles and you should have a <something>.default directory in there containing your all your personalised user settings.

Copy this to the same location on the 2nd PC and all the passwords, add-ons and themes should be there also.

This might be slightly different, but similar, for backing up an XP install.

Edit: check http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Backing+up+your+information

Worked great - thanks