PureBrowser to Firefox ESR
PureBrowser to Firefox ESR
→ → 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.
- 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.
- 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 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 you are done! Everything will have come over from PureBrowser.
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
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- richard.kolla
- Last Edited
- Feb 13 2020, 08:00