Transfer of Firefox and Thunderbird data

[Bazooka Joe]

I see you got dual boot working.

Thunderbird under tools has a import feature. I would use that.  FF
you should be able to export your favorites then import them into the
new FF

btw it is Ubuntu

-bazooka

On Jan 28, 2008 12:11 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> 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
>
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