Hello,
I wish to move my Firefox profile from Windows to my Mac. Tried to make sense of the command line options. I would greatly appreciate it if someone can tell me the steps I need to accomplush this. Thanks much.
Migrate Firefox Profile from Windows to macOS
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Re: Migrate Firefox Profile from Windows to macOS
Prince_Rogue wrote:Hello,
I wish to move my Firefox profile from Windows to my Mac. Tried to make sense of the command line options. I would greatly appreciate it if someone can tell me the steps I need to accomplush this. Thanks much.
I would backup the folder, and drop it into macOS profile folder. You can try to create a clean folder on mac to find the location on about:profiles. But it's better to fire up temp firefox account, and sync it, rather than copy paste and drop it into other OSes.
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Re: Migrate Firefox Profile from Windows to macOS
Command line options are not normally needed when migrating a profile.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_ ... hunderbird
For a concise, less detailed version of the process, see this thread --
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 5#p7251375
For an alternative approach, see tanstaafl's posts in this thread -- http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p14209121
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_ ... hunderbird
For a concise, less detailed version of the process, see this thread --
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 5#p7251375
For an alternative approach, see tanstaafl's posts in this thread -- http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p14209121
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Re: Migrate Firefox Profile from Windows to macOS
Or turn on Firefox Sync on your Windows computer, make sure it syncs, then turn it on on the Mac and let it sync.
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