Transferring Firefox cookies

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2021-06-11 at 10:57 +0100, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> He has various accounts online and can't find the appropriate user
> name and password information.

Firefox lets you see all that information. Unless he has thousands of
entries, it'll be a few minutes of screenshotting. A bit more if you
cut and paste into a text file instead.

> Another solution, which I don't know is possible or not, is to copy
> cookies.sqlite and places.sqlite from the old computer to the newer
> computer.

The passwords etc are not in cookies. But you can test your procedure
by creating a new profile, overwriting those two files with copies from
his old computer, and seeing what happens when you run Fifefox with the
new profile. Harmless, whether it works or not.

You can also use sqlite to look into those databases...

Regards, K.

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