Transferring Firefox cookies

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 11 Jun 2021 20:53:25 +1000 kauer at biplane.com.au, "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 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.
> 
> > 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...

I've had no problems using rsync of ~/.mozilla/firefox between my laptop and 
desktop computers, for years running CentOS, now running Ubuntu.  So long as 
both machines are running the same O/S version and the same version of 
Firefox, it is entirely seamless.

> 
> Regards, K.
> 

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