How do I copy wholesale my Firefox setup from my personal PC to my work laptop? [Repost from asklemmy bcos rules] (piefed.social)

submitted 4 weeks ago by JayGray91@piefed.social to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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I'm sorry to those that seen this from asklemmy comm. Didn't read the rules. Reposting here.

Both are Windows machines. I know, don't need to preach about it.

I like how I set up the Firefox install on my PC and getting around to using it again for work because of multi account containers. Did the testing on my personal PC in case some things break with the hardening I chose for my threat model.

I just don't want to repeat the steps again, even if I already know what worked for me.

I found online that I could just copy the Firefox profile folder. Is that just it?

If it's the copy profile way, is the profile from a base Firefox compatible for other forks? If it's not the profile copying way, is the other ways compatible moving from base firefox to its forks?

TIA

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[-] emberpunk@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Read and follow these instructions:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles

Works well and the only thing ive noticed is that Ive had to remove and reinstall my uBlock origin extension on the new profile for some reason. Doesn't happen all the time. Probably Firefox mismatch.

Otherwise this works.

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