Moving Firefox settings from F21 to F22

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Aug 13 16:40:07 UTC 2015



On 08/13/2015 12:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 11:19 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> My cheat sheet that I used in going from F20 to F21 is not working on
>> F21 to F22.
>>
>> To restore Firefox:
>>
>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/
>>
>> move:
>>
>> places.sqlite
>> permissions.sqlite
>> formhistory.sqlite
>> cookies.sqlite
>> cert8.db
>> mimeTypes.rdf
>> save-session:    sessionstore.js
>>
>> ===============
>>
>> No sessionstore.js actually anymore in F21 to move.  My bookmarks,
>> history, etc.  Do not seem to be moved.
>>
>> I cannot find any F22 help on this, and interestingly Firefox on my
>> F21 is 39.0.0 and on F22 it is 39.0.3  (of course don't know what
>> originally came with F21).
> Why do you have to move anything? If you have /home on a separate
> partition you should't need to do anything at all.

Different computer and drive.  F21 is still on the old computer that at 
least needs a new fan, but probably some other fix ups.  F22 is now on a 
computer that is the sum of working parts of two other computers :)

I COULD copy the whole .default directory over...




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