Importing bookmarks and passwords

mr_magoomr_magoo state of confusion
edited September 2010 in Science & Tech
OK, all you smart people out there. I just went from Linux Mint to Windows 7. I backed up and have a ton of other info on an external HD. I run Firefox as my browser and Google as my search engine and mail client. What do I look for in my external files and where do I put the ported info?

Really, I thought I had anticipated this, moving my Mozilla profile onto the external. I copied the folder into the profile on the machine. No bookmarks. Passwords are a bit trickier involving a js file, I think.

Any help here would be appreciated. It would save me a grunch of time if I can port this info over.

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Comments

  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited September 2010
    In ~/.mozilla/firefox/ (which you should have copied from your old Linux Mint install) there should be a folder that is a bunch of random letters and numbers (possibly more than one). Make sure Firefox is closed and copy those folders as well as profiles.ini to C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\

    That should import your entire FF profile, passwords, bookmarks, history, everything.

    Once you've got that done, install the XMarks plugin, open an account and never worry about having to do that again.
  • mr_magoomr_magoo state of confusion
    edited September 2010
    Didn't work. Couldn't find a profiles.ini file. I'll dink around some more using your suggestion as a base. Thanks.
  • mr_magoomr_magoo state of confusion
    edited September 2010
    Bah! I'll just go through and redo stuff. I had way too many bookmarks as it was and my password situation is ridiculous. Gotta work on makin' this simpler and the only real good way to do that is from the ground up.
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