I can't help with passwords as I don't store any passwords in browsers, but for bookmarks, if the previous suggestions haven't worked then the method I've used successfully in the past is:

In the old Firefox:
1) Go to Settings > Bookmarks > Manage bookmarks
2) Import and backup > Export bookmarks to HTML
3) Save that to your flashdrive.

In the new Firefox:
1) Go to Settings > Bookmarks > Manage bookmarks
2) Import and backup > Import bookmarks from HTML
3) Select the file from your flashdrive


(For my personal device - an Apple so not directly helpful for you - I have an automated backup running regularly over my home wifi. Then when I get a new device (or if the old device just dies one day without warning, which has happened) I can restore from that if needed. At work of course our ITS does the automated backups.)

Deborah


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My esteemed listmates,

For days I've been grappling with this task.

I have exported my Firefix bookmarks and passwords to a flash drive from my old (dying) laptop to my newere refurbished laptop.

The replacement files (logins.json and key4.db) were in my old profile
folder:

My new FF profile folder is
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

I copied logins.json and key4.db into there but when I open FF on the new laptop to Menu > Bookmarks > Import > Restore ....nothing happens. It just sits there.

I've posted this on a Mozilla support forum and each poster suggest something different or leaves out steps and they have no step - by step to accomplish this task.

If you have actually accomplished this task (not read a Knowledge base) but done it yourself would you please share those steps?

I also wanted to move my old passwords to my nee laptop but the posters shard that's complicated. Not exactly a helpful reply.

I exported the passwords as a .cvs file.

For the future do you use Clonezilla or some backup software so you press Backup and it saves your hard drive on to a flash or external hard drive and then on your new PC you press Install?

I'd like something I can easily use to get everything on to the new laptop and not have to spend days "recovering" from a dying laptop.

Thank you so much.

Charles.

Charlotte County Public Library

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