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Are Firefox profiles platform independant?

Firefox Installation og opdateringer
Nate9000 replied
Nate9000
Nate9000

I would like to transfer my profile data from Windows 7 to Debian 7. for some reason the Sync feature just isn't working for me.

So My question is, are Firefox profiles cross platform compatible?

eg. can I just simply copy my profile from windows... "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile folder>" to my profile on linux?... "~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile folder>"

I would like to transfer my profile data from Windows 7 to Debian 7. for some reason the Sync feature just isn't working for me. So My question is, are Firefox profiles cross platform compatible? eg. can I just simply copy my profile from windows... "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile folder>" to my profile on linux?... "~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile folder>"

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the-edmeister
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Not 100% compatible. Some preferences in the prefs.js file (basically files paths from what I have observed) and some files added by add-ons may not be entirely compatible.


My advice is to copy the individual files in the Profile folder one at a time, using this as a guide as to which files to copy.
recovering important data from an old Profile

Nate9000
Nate9000 Spørgsmålsstiller

hmm, well would my Tab Groups copy over? and what file are those stored on?

Nate9000
Nate9000 Spørgsmålsstiller

AH I think i found a sufficient answer here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/877497


Thank you for your help!