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{nav icon=home, name=Main Page > icon=thumbs-o-up, name=Troubleshooting > name=PureBrowser to Firefox ESR} Moving PureBrowser Profile (bookmarks, history, addons, etc) into Firefox ESR --- * Go into PureBrowser - Click the menu button on the top right - Help - Troubleshooting Information. The Troubleshooting Information tab will open. Under the Application Basics section it will list your Profile Directory. Take note of path to the profile directory ` /home/USER/.purism/purebrowser/USERSTRING.default * If you have already been migrated to Firefox. Just `cd ~/.purism/purebrowser/` and `ls -al`. This will list all files and directories. The directory named USERSTRING.default is the one. * If you have multiple USERSTRING.default then find the one with the date of the last time you used PureBrowser. * Open Tilix/Terminal and run `cd ~/.purism/purebrowser/` and find the USERSTRING.default directory. * Run the update in Software, or apt, to now migrate to Firefox ESR. * Then run `cp -r USERSTRING.default ~/.mozilla/firefox/` to move the profile folder over. * Now run `firefox -P` in Tilix/Terminal. * Select 'Create Profile' and then 'Next' * Enter a profile name or leave as it. Then Select 'Choose Folder'. * Click on your the USERSTRING.default directory that you just moved over and press 'Open'. * Click 'Finish' and 'Start Firefox'. * Firefox should load with all the tabs you had open before and everything else will have come over from PureBrowser. You are done! * **NOTE 1** If using a search engine other than Google, you'll need to go into the menu button on the top right - Preferences - Search - select your Search Engine of choice from the drop down. * **NOTE 2** We have transitioned from uBlock Origin to EFF's Privacy Badger. That should be the only difference in addons you see. Made with help from from Mozilla's excellent Firefox Knowledge Base. See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data --- Method 2 ======== Another way to move your old `Purebrowser` profile, to the new `Firefox`, is to move some parts of the `Purebrowser` profile folder to `Firefox`. To do this: 1. open your Files manager in your `home` folder and press `ctrl+h`. This will show you the hidden folders. Hidden folders/files always start with a `.` before the name. You will see the folders `.purism` and `.mozilla` {F380272, width=690, alt=cdp1} NOTE: Before proceeding, make a copy of both these folders to elsewhere as a backup. 2. Close `Firefox` if you have it open. If you need to have access to this tutorial during this process then, print this page as a PDF. 3. Open the `.mozilla` folder, and inside it, the `Firefox` and then open the folder that has a name ending in: `default-esr` 4. Delete the content of the folder that has a name ending in `default-esr` but do not delete the folder itself. {F380274, width=690, alt=cdp1} 5. Open the folder `.purism` and then `purebrowser` and you will see a folder that also has a name that ends in `default`. Copy the contents of that folder to inside the folder `default-esr` in `.mozilla/firefox/somestring.default-esr` 6. Restart `Firefox`. And magic: {F380271, width=690, alt=cdp1} NOTE: `Firefox` had google as the default search engine. We recommand you install the addon: `duckduckgo`, to replace google as the default search engine.

{nav icon=home, name=Main Page > icon=thumbs-o-up, name=Troubleshooting > name=PureBrowser to Firefox ESR} Moving PureBrowser Profile (bookmarks, history, addons, etc) into Firefox ESR --- Method 1 (Command Line) ======== * Go into PureBrowser - Click the menu button on the top right - Help - Troubleshooting Information. The Troubleshooting Information tab will open. Under the Application Basics section it will list your Profile Directory. Take note of path to the profile directory ` /home/USER/.purism/purebrowser/USERSTRING.default * If you have already been migrated to Firefox. Just `cd ~/.purism/purebrowser/` and `ls -al`. This will list all files and directories. The directory named USERSTRING.default is the one. * If you have multiple USERSTRING.default then find the one with the date of the last time you used PureBrowser. * Open Tilix/Terminal and run `cd ~/.purism/purebrowser/` and find the USERSTRING.default directory. * Run the update in Software, or apt, to now migrate to Firefox ESR. * Then run `cp -r USERSTRING.default ~/.mozilla/firefox/` to move the profile folder over. * Now run `firefox -P` in Tilix/Terminal. * Select 'Create Profile' and then 'Next' * Enter a profile name or leave as it. Then Select 'Choose Folder'. * Click on your the USERSTRING.default directory that you just moved over and press 'Open'. * Click 'Finish' and 'Start Firefox'. * Firefox should load with all the tabs you had open before and everything else will have come over from PureBrowser. You are done! * **NOTE 1** If using a search engine other than Google, you'll need to go into the menu button on the top right - Preferences - Search - select your Search Engine of choice from the drop down. * **NOTE 2** We have transitioned from uBlock Origin to EFF's Privacy Badger. That should be the only difference in addons you see. Made with help from from Mozilla's excellent Firefox Knowledge Base. See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data --- Method 2 (GUI) ======== Another way to move your old `Purebrowser` profile, to the new `Firefox`, is to move some parts of the `Purebrowser` profile folder to `Firefox`. To do this: 1. open your Files manager in your `home` folder and press `ctrl+h`. This will show you the hidden folders. Hidden folders/files always start with a `.` before the name. You will see the folders `.purism` and `.mozilla` {F380272, width=690, alt=cdp1} NOTE: Before proceeding, make a copy of both these folders to elsewhere as a backup. 2. Close `Firefox` if you have it open. If you need to have access to this tutorial during this process then, print this page as a PDF. 3. Open the `.mozilla` folder, and inside it, the `Firefox` and then open the folder that has a name ending in: `default-esr` 4. Delete the content of the folder that has a name ending in `default-esr` but do not delete the folder itself. {F380274, width=690, alt=cdp1} 5. Open the folder `.purism` and then `purebrowser` and you will see a folder that also has a name that ends in `default`. Copy the contents of that folder to inside the folder `default-esr` in `.mozilla/firefox/somestring.default-esr` 6. Restart `Firefox`. And magic: {F380271, width=690, alt=cdp1} NOTE: `Firefox` had google as the default search engine. We recommand you install the addon: `duckduckgo`, to replace google as the default search engine.

{nav icon=home, name=Main Page > icon=thumbs-o-up, name=Troubleshooting > name=PureBrowser to Firefox ESR} Moving PureBrowser Profile (bookmarks, history, addons, etc) into Firefox ESR --- Method 1 (Command Line) ======== * Go into PureBrowser - Click the menu button on the top right - Help - Troubleshooting Information. The Troubleshooting Information tab will open. Under the Application Basics section it will list your Profile Directory. Take note of path to the profile directory ` /home/USER/.purism/purebrowser/USERSTRING.default * If you have already been migrated to Firefox. Just `cd ~/.purism/purebrowser/` and `ls -al`. This will list all files and directories. The directory named USERSTRING.default is the one. * If you have multiple USERSTRING.default then find the one with the date of the last time you used PureBrowser. * Open Tilix/Terminal and run `cd ~/.purism/purebrowser/` and find the USERSTRING.default directory. * Run the update in Software, or apt, to now migrate to Firefox ESR. * Then run `cp -r USERSTRING.default ~/.mozilla/firefox/` to move the profile folder over. * Now run `firefox -P` in Tilix/Terminal. * Select 'Create Profile' and then 'Next' * Enter a profile name or leave as it. Then Select 'Choose Folder'. * Click on your the USERSTRING.default directory that you just moved over and press 'Open'. * Click 'Finish' and 'Start Firefox'. * Firefox should load with all the tabs you had open before and everything else will have come over from PureBrowser. You are done! * **NOTE 1** If using a search engine other than Google, you'll need to go into the menu button on the top right - Preferences - Search - select your Search Engine of choice from the drop down. * **NOTE 2** We have transitioned from uBlock Origin to EFF's Privacy Badger. That should be the only difference in addons you see. Made with help from from Mozilla's excellent Firefox Knowledge Base. See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data --- Method 2 (GUI) ======== Another way to move your old `Purebrowser` profile, to the new `Firefox`, is to move some parts of the `Purebrowser` profile folder to `Firefox`. To do this: 1. open your Files manager in your `home` folder and press `ctrl+h`. This will show you the hidden folders. Hidden folders/files always start with a `.` before the name. You will see the folders `.purism` and `.mozilla` {F380272, width=690, alt=cdp1} NOTE: Before proceeding, make a copy of both these folders to elsewhere as a backup. 2. Close `Firefox` if you have it open. If you need to have access to this tutorial during this process then, print this page as a PDF. 3. Open the `.mozilla` folder, and inside it, the `Firefox` and then open the folder that has a name ending in: `default-esr` 4. Delete the content of the folder that has a name ending in `default-esr` but do not delete the folder itself. {F380274, width=690, alt=cdp1} 5. Open the folder `.purism` and then `purebrowser` and you will see a folder that also has a name that ends in `default`. Copy the contents of that folder to inside the folder `default-esr` in `.mozilla/firefox/somestring.default-esr` 6. Restart `Firefox`. And magic: {F380271, width=690, alt=cdp1} NOTE: `Firefox` had google as the default search engine. We recommand you install the addon: `duckduckgo`, to replace google as the default search engine.