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11-12-2013, 09:14 PM
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| Importing Firefox Profile
Yeah yeah, I'm still using Firefox. Shut it. 
Anyway, I reformatted my laptop last night and am having issues with importing my FF profile. I know which ones store information that I need (passwords, bookmarks, etc) and dropped them into my new profile folder (appdata/local/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/randomstringofletters) but FF isn't picking them up. The passwords I'm not too terribly worried about but I had a bunch of bookmarks that I need for work and will go crazy if I have to spend a week trying to search them all out again.
Thoughts? I tried going through the Mozilla help page but there wasn't much information I found helpful.
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11-12-2013, 11:00 PM
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I see you reformatted your hard drive so you would have lost your last configuration. Do you have firefox with bookmarks configured on another machine? I ask because FF has a handy sync option that pretty much saves everything (passwords, bookmarks, history) into the cloud and lets you deploy it on multiple devices.
If not, I won't be much help. I'm on a mac and I see my bookmarks stored in a .json file. You may be able to import this file inside the 'Show All Bookmarks' window and click Restore > From File. If not you can open it with notepad and find your URLs in the messy code.
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11-13-2013, 06:44 AM
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^ I use the sync'd bookmarks for FF on my phone/laptop because I would not have a clue how to save and transfer them after a format.
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11-13-2013, 07:36 AM
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I usually just go the lazy route and take the entire contents of the original folder located in:
c: \users\yourusername\appdata\roaming\mozilla\firefo x\profiles\something.default
and copy it to:
c: \users\newusername\appdata\roaming\mozilla\firefox \profiles\somethingelse.default.
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11-13-2013, 01:09 PM
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#5 | | Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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The bookmarks, history, etc are in the file "places.sqlite".
If you copied the file over while Firefox was open you willrevert back to the old bookmarks when you close Firefox.
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11-13-2013, 09:25 PM
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What's wrong with using FF? Still my browser of choice.
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11-14-2013, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Presto I usually just go the lazy route and take the entire contents of the original folder located in:
c: \users\yourusername\appdata\roaming\mozilla\firefo x\profiles\something.default
and copy it to:
c: \users\newusername\appdata\roaming\mozilla\firefox \profiles\somethingelse.default. | This.
(Worked for me.)
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11-19-2013, 10:38 AM
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#8 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by underscore What's wrong with using FF? Still my browser of choice. | Same here.
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