Transfer of Firefox and Thunderbird data

[Karl Larsen]

Sam Fielder wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>     Hello and my name is Karl Larsen and I am just changing from 
>> Fedora to Ubuntu Linux. The setup of Ubuntu was simple and getting a 
>> root access was tricky but it is all good now. Fully updated last night.
>>
>>     Transferring both Firefox and Thunderbird details was easy going 
>> from Fedora versions but nothing works transferred to Ubuntu. Version 
>> wise the Firefox is 2.0.0.10 and Thunderbird is 2.0.0.9 and both from 
>> yum to the Fedora servers.
>>
>>     The Ubuntu Firefox and Thunderbird were apt-get install from the 
>> Ubuntu servers. Here is the problem.
>>
>>     Firefox stores it's information in /user/.moxilla and I put my F8 
>> .mozilla in place of the original and now Firefox will not come up. I 
>> can fix this by deleting /user/.mozilla and letting a new one be 
>> made. What can I replace in .mozilla that will give it all the saved 
>> pages from the older?
>>
>>     Thunderbird is also odd. In Fedora it's data is saved in 
>> /user/.thunderbird/. The Ubunto Thunderbird seems not to like the 
>> older data.
>>
>>     Has anyone had success with this kind of thing?
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>   
> if you have access to your old home directory (fedora) enable hidden 
> files in your window manager. there will be two folders you need to 
> copy and bring over to your new (ubuntu installation), their names are 
> .mozilla and .mozilla-thunderbird. I don't run fedora, so i don't have 
> the exact location, sorry.
>
> once you have those two files, open your window manager and browse to 
> your home directory.
> go to View-->Show hidden files.
>
> the trick here is to let firefox and thunderbird complete installing 
> themselves.
> all you need to do is open firefox and shut it down once and it will 
> complete the install. (do the same with thunderbird. you will need to 
> setup a bogus account)
> once the programs are done installing, you will see that they have 
> created a .mozilla and .mozilla-thunderbird folder in your home directory
>
> from there you should be able to copy your old profile into the new 
> folder and setup the profile.ini to point to the correct place.
>
> hope it helps
>
> sam
>
> PS
> if you are going to dual boot you can just change the profile.ini to 
> point to the old location on your disk by specifying the full path and 
> setting is relative to 0.
> that way you can use the same profile(s) on both machines which is 
> very handy.(works with windows too)
    Well I brought the old .mozilla to ubuntu and then copied the old 
firefox/ to the new .mozilla and it is all good now.

    Also I am sure happy the Debian apt-get is working so well. Even the 
Fedora late releases have let you yum apt-get if you wanted it.

Karl