On 17/09/2023 16:15, Bev Nicolson wrote:
It looks like I will be getting another laptop as my old one is reaching the end of the road. I want to be certain about what I'll be doing, hence asking.
What I want to do is transfer all the bookmarks (I have *a lot*), passwords and settings for Firefox over. Is creating a profile the easiest way of doing that?
Easiest? Not sure. However, it won't do any harm - as long as you're happy with Mozilla having your data. Create an account. Tell it you want to sync bookmarks, and everything else. Force it to synchronize. Do the same on your other laptop and the bookmarks etc should appear. I find this convenient to access tabs between devices.
There is another way. There are articles like this... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-pr... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1409852
Finding the profile is OK. Backing up the profile is OK. Making the new laptop use the existing profile, I'm not sure that any of the links make that 100% clear, but there are articles somewhere that do.
I also want to ensure I have the folders of old emails saved in Thunderbird somewhere safe. Those are emails I have stored on the laptop, not online. Transferring Thunderbird's settings would be a bonus too. If I create a Thunderbird profile, will it do both of those things?
I recently looked to see if I could see "create a Thunderbird profile." I couldn't find it. So I think it's backup the data and the profile again, and restore, then force it to use the old profile again.
(That said, there is an export and import option on the Tools menu.)
This looks helpful: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-comput...
Just make sure that you locate whereever the email folders are and backup and copy them over.
Good luck.
Steve
PS this may help
https://www.makeuseof.com/migrate-firefox-profile-another-computer/