1427794 - Profile data import/export

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[bobbuun]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171206182557

Steps to reproduce:

(feature request)


Actual results:

(feature request)


Expected results:

There should be a path to migrate data from one Android mobile device to another that does not require Sync. Firefox itself should have an "export all data and settings to a file" option that I can then copy to my new device, which will similarly have the import.

Comment 1

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

Bug 1396929 goes in a similar direction, but only for development/debugging, i.e. no import and possibly only for local builds or Nightly at most.

Comment 2

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

This is very difficult to do in practice, because versions of Firefox can't always be up/downgraded exactly.  See also tickets like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775104.

Comment 3

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

Downgrade is understandable, but upgrade, too?

Comment 4

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

(In reply to Jan Henning [:JanH] from comment #3)
> Downgrade is understandable, but upgrade, too?

In general, we should be able to upgrade safely.

Comment 5

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

(In reply to Nick Alexander :nalexander from comment #2)
> This is very difficult to do in practice, because versions of Firefox can't
> always be up/downgraded exactly.

We could check compatibility.ini and show a warning when detecting an attempted downgrade.

Comment 8

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