[General] Quick Firefox Tip

[Abdulmajeed Al-Sabah]

or use the add-on called FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension).

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2109

Abdulmajeed



On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks a bunch!
>
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Burhan Khalid <burhan at kuwaitnet.net>
> wrote:
> > Salaam All:
> >
> >  Just wanted to share this quick tip. If you are migrating/upgrading and
> > want to preserve your firefox bookmarks and passwords (but not the
> frivolous
> > stuff, like the cache); then:
> >
> >  1. Find your firefox profile directory. On Linux it is generally
> > ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles. If you have more than one profile, you can
> find
> > out which is the default by looking at the profiles.ini file (which is in
> > the same directory).
> >
> >  2. Copy the following files to your backup location:
> >          places.*
> >          prefs.js
> >          search.sqlite (search history)
> >          urlclassifier3.*
> >          formhistory.sqlite
> >          bookmarks.html
> >          cert8.db
> >          cert_override.db
> >          cookies.sqlite
> >          key3.db
> >          signons3.txt
> >
> >  3. On your new installation, run firefox once, then close it.
> >  4. Find your profile directory
> >  5. Copy the above files (overwriting any already existing)
> >
> >  The 'quick' way is to just copy the profiles.ini file and the entire
> > profile directory; but this might lead to unexpected results (as it did
> with
> > me, mainly dealing with extensions). Of course, don't copy the Cache
> folder
> > if you do this.
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> >
> > --
> > Burhan Khalid
> >
> >
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>
> --
>        Majed B.
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