wrt to installing firefox:
On 5/8/26 8:23 AM, Go Canes wrote:
On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 9:28 PM Robert Moskowitz via users
<[email protected]> wrote:
[how to copy/move firefox from one computer to another]
on the old computer, find .mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.default-release/ and
copy the dir to USB
When I have needed to do this I copied the entire .mozilla tree to the
new computer.
on new computer, start firefox then close it then look for folder
.mozilla/firefox as the new profile structure.
.mozilla does not have firefox subdir.
Why? What do I do?
My guess is that if have installed firefox and the directory tree
isn't there, it will be created the first time you start firefox.
Since I am doing a total rebuild, I will see what is in .mozilla before
I launch it.
Other recommendations?
My method is to copy the entire .mozilla tree to the new computer
*before* installing firefox, *then* install firefox.
Kind of hard to do as it is pretty well baked into the xfce desktop. It
has been a while since I saw this as a separate option to install.
I want my history, cookies, bookmarks, and whatever else to get the same
operation.
My method preserves everything (including multiple firefox profiles)
except the cache. I also use seamonkey and it also lives in the
.mozilla tree and gets preserved.
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