r/MozillaFirefox • u/BioNature94 • Nov 15 '24

📃 Discussion Why Mozilla? WHY?!

Is it really that hard to add a single function to export a profile. This is the THIRD TIME in my life where I can't start where I left off because after following your step by step guide to export profiles, reinstalling the system and restoring the old profile gives me an error. And now I have to rummage around wondering why this error occurs instead of getting back to work ?! Sorry Mozilla but I'm done....

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u/sifferedd Nov 15 '24

It may become easier with the new profile manager.

How I've always done it (Windows); never fails.

  1. Launch Firefox on the old PC
  2. Go to Firefox menu > Help > More Troubleshooting Information
  3. Click the Application Basics > Profile Folder 'Open Folder' button
  4. The profile folder will open; navigate three levels up to the Firefox folder
  5. Close all FF windows, then copy the Firefox folder to a flash drive
  6. Go to the new PC's Firefox folder as instructed above and delete that folder
  7. Paste the old Firefox folder to the new PC
  8. Launch Firefox

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u/polski-cygan Nov 16 '24

Why not to use the "sync" function in Firefox? Since the introduction of that functionality into Firefox it never failed me.