Transferring Settings from Windows to Linux: Firefox

November 20, 2007 | In My Life, Development |

Now I’ve had my new laptop for a few days and have had a play with it, it’s time to transfer all my mail, bookmarks and documents across.

Firstly, Firefox bookmarks is dead easy. I used Firefox for Windows and am using Firefox on the new machine. So all I needed to do was copy the bookmarks.html file from the Windows machine. This is found in the followingdirectory:

Documents and Settings/<username>/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/<random string>/

Alternatively, you can use the Export function from the Bookmarks Manager (Bookmarks -> Organise Bookmarks… menu item).

To import then, you then select the Import function from the Bookmarks Manager.  Dead easy.

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