Transferring Firefox cookies

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 08:53:25PM +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> 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.

The "nss-passwords" package can also be useful for this kind of thing.

> > 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.

If you're going to do that kind of thing, I'd just copy the entire
profile over.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]