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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 --- 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) ======== 1. 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. 2. Open Tilix/Terminal and run `cd ~/.purism/purebrowser/` and find the USERSTRING.default directory. 3. Run the update in Software, or apt, to now migrate to Firefox ESR. 4. Then run `cp -r USERSTRING.default ~/.mozilla/firefox/` to move the profile folder over. 5. Now run `firefox -P` in Tilix/Terminal. 6. Select 'Create Profile' and then 'Next' 7. Enter a profile name or leave as it. Then Select 'Choose Folder'. 8. Click on your the USERSTRING.default directory that you just moved over and press 'Open'. 9. Click 'Finish' and 'Start Firefox'. 10. 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 wanting to use 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) ======== *1. 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. *2. Open Tilix/Terminal and run `cd ~/.purism/purebrowser/` and find the USERSTRING.default directory. *3. Run the update in Software, or apt, to now migrate to Firefox ESR. *4. Then run `cp -r USERSTRING.default ~/.mozilla/firefox/` to move the profile folder over. *5. Now run `firefox -P` in Tilix/Terminal. *6. Select 'Create Profile' and then 'Next' *7. Enter a profile name or leave as it. Then Select 'Choose Folder'. *8. Click on your the USERSTRING.default directory that you just moved over and press 'Open'. *9. Click 'Finish' and 'Start Firefox'. *10. 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 usingwanting to use 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.