PureBrowser to Firefox ESR

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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 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