Closed Bug 324400 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Migration of firefox settings difficult...

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: hadmut, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060110 Debian/1.5.dfsg-4 Firefox/1.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060110 Debian/1.5.dfsg-4 Firefox/1.5 Hi, when using firefox (and thunderbird) for some time, there are plenty of individual settings, such as fonts, stored password, bookmarks etc. When migrating to a new computer (or keeping a notebook up to date to the account at home) it is quite difficult to keep the settings in sync. Some settings are easy to clone (e.g. those in prefs.js), others are more difficult (e.g. the bookmarks, since LAST_VISIT and ID keep continuously changing), and some are extremely difficult to migrate, e.g. passwords. What exactly is the fileformat of the passwords file and it's encryption? Why can't firefox read a file copied from another computer, even if the master password is the same? Why is it sometimes called 12345678.s (with changing numbers - what's the meaning of the number?) and sometimes signon.txt? Firefox should allow to keep several accounts in sync, and not just by mouse-click-configuration. It is highly annoying if you need to reconfigure every firefox instance from scratch and to reenter every single password. That way it is too microsoft-ish. regards Hadmut Reproducible: Always
If you copy the following files, it will contain the most important information: # bookmarks.html (bookmarks) # user.js (preferences, self-made file) # prefs.js (preferences) # cookies.txt (cookies) # history.dat (history) # hostperm.1 (blacklist/whitelist) # signons.txt (passwords) # key3.db (passwords) # localstore.rdf (toolbar settings) # folder chrome # folder extensions I don't see the described problem with the bookmarks because all info is stored in bookmarks.html and the passwords problem: you need to copy two files. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Migrating_settings_to_a_new_profile
I can't see a bug report here, only questions (password file format and others) and if this would be a valid bug, you would have to split it up into several bugs. marking this invalid
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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