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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: TR on April 27, 2007, 17:34

Title: Vista / Firefox / Simon / or anybody
Post by: TR on April 27, 2007, 17:34

Probably a question for the Firefox expert (Simon)  ;D

Just finished building a new super PC with hopefully Vista Ultimate running tomorrow, my question is...how can I transfer all my firefox settings to the new pc.


Cheers


TerrY

Title: Re: Vista / Firefox / Simon / or anybody
Post by: Simon on April 27, 2007, 21:33

Hi Terry,

If you locate your original Firefox profile, usually in C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default, you should either be able to do one of two things:

1. Copy the entire [xxxxxxxx.default] folder to the same directory on the new machine, then switch to the new (old) profile in Firefox.

or...

2. Copy the contents of the [xxxxxxxx.default] folder, and over-write all the files in the newly created profile on the new machine.  It's the [prefs.js] file which is the critical one, as this contains all the settings, but if you also have add-ons, and extensions, it's best to copy the entire folder contents.

Whichever method you choose, I would strongly advise to keep a back up of your original Firefox profile folder.

Now, there's a caveat to all this, and that is, I can't promise that there won't be any compatibility issues, when moving all the files to Vista, and from what I can gather, from reading these release notes (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.1/releasenotes/#vista), there are still a few niggles with Firefox and Vista.

Best of luck!   :crazy:

Title: Re: Vista / Firefox / Simon / or anybody
Post by: TR on April 28, 2007, 13:38

Thanks Si  o:)

Wrong date on camera (flat Batts) but the new build.

Asus Mobo M2N-SLI Delux
AMD Athlon 64 4600 x2 Duel Core
ATI Radeon Graphics Card X550 256mb/DDR1
2Gb Kingston Ram
Akasa Smart Fan Cotroller
2 x 16 RW Samsung DVD
Vista Ultimat

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Title: Re: Vista / Firefox / Simon / or anybody
Post by: Simon on April 28, 2007, 14:16

Very cool, Terry!  :thumb:

Title: Re: Vista / Firefox / Simon / or anybody
Post by: mistybear on April 28, 2007, 14:41

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Title: Re: Vista / Firefox / Simon / or anybody
Post by: TR on May 02, 2007, 21:12

Sorted  ;D

Saved everything in IE6 1st saved as file then exported to new PC then imported to Firefox on Vista Ultimate.

Thanks for the advice.

Terry