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Move Firefox & Chrome setting to new PC

Asked by Rich.b

Please could anyone tell me how to copy my setting on Firefox & Chrome on my old Dell PC running Ubuntu 10.04 to my New PC running Window7 Pro and soon also dual boot with Ubuntu 15.10 64bit

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Firefox settings are stored in (and below)
~/.mozilla/firefox

and chrome in (and below)
~/.config/google-chrome

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Rich.b (aybi30) said : 		#2

Thank you Manfred, So do I just copy the details from ~/.mozilla/firefox & ~/.config/google-chrome to my new PC config file?

Richard

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

Yes, try that.

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Rich.b (aybi30) said : 		#4

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.

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Rich.b (aybi30) said : 		#5

Sorry to be a pest Manfred, but how do I get to these files

~/.mozilla/firefox & ~/.config/google-

Thanks again

Richard

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#6

Those aren't files but directories, and they are hidden (because the file name starts with a dot).
Press ctrl-h in nautilus, and you should see them.

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Rich.b (aybi30) said : 		#7

Thanks Manfred.

I will look at this later.

Richard