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Can I move Firefox Profile folders from windows to mint? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linuxmint@lemmy.ml

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Hi guys, as title says is it possible to just copy and paste my entire profile folders from Firefox in Windows to Linux or they are not compatible and I have to reconfigure from start. What's the best move here?

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[–] BunScientist@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

iirc the profiles have some system specific paths here and there so some things will work while others will just be broken.

best thing to do is to use whatever exports and imports you can do, from bookmarks and extensions

[–] aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have two profiles extensively modified over the years but good news is almost most of them are in the user.js files so if it comes to that I think I can just copy them and manually add the rest