Recent answers to Will importing a firefox backup file from Windows 7 restore my bookmarks properly in Firefox installed on Linux system?https://support.mozilla.org/ar/questions/12624862019-07-19T15:27:20-07:00Restoring a JSON backup and importing an HTML backup will work.
You can also transfer places.sqlite 2019-07-19T15:27:20-07:00cor-elhttps://support.mozilla.org/ar/questions/1262486#answer-1238926<p>Restoring a JSON backup and importing an HTML backup will work.
You can also transfer places.sqlite to get the bookmarks and history.
Transferring database files is usually safe, but some files (prefs.js, pkcs11.txt) contain absolute paths that break in Linux.
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<ul><li>bookmarks and history: places.sqlite
</li><li>bookmark backups: compressed .jsonlz4 JSON backups in the bookmarkbackups folder
</li><li>cookies.sqlite for the Cookies
</li><li>formhistory.sqlite for saved autocomplete Form Data
</li><li>logins.json (passwords) and key4.db (58+) or key3.db (57 and older) (decryption key) for Passwords saved in the Password Manager<br>if you only have key3.db then make sure to remove an existing key4.db
</li><li>cert9.db (58+) or cert8.db (57 and older) for (intermediate) certificates stored in the Certificate Manager<br>if you only have cert8.db then make sure to remove an existing cert9.db
</li><li>persdict.dat for words you added to the spelling checker dictionary
</li><li>permissions.sqlite for Permissions and possibly content-prefs.sqlite for other website specific data (Site Preferences)
</li><li>sessionstore.jsonlz4 for open tabs and pinned tabs (see also the sessionstore-backups folder)
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<ul><li><a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile" rel="nofollow">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile</a>
</li></ul>Thank you WestEnd I have read the help files however they don't say whether a Windows 7 FireFox back2019-07-19T08:06:15-07:00mbg19446https://support.mozilla.org/ar/questions/1262486#answer-1238879<p>Thank you WestEnd I have read the help files however they don't say whether a Windows 7 FireFox backup file will restore to a Linux version of FireFox.
</p>Have you read this yet.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-t2019-06-23T17:28:15-07:00WestEndhttps://support.mozilla.org/ar/questions/1262486#answer-1232350<p>Have you read this yet.
</p><p><a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-them" rel="nofollow">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-them</a>
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