Transferring Firefox cookies

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 at 11:59, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have a friend who is getting a Tower PC running Ubuntu, from the Computer Wombling Project.

What is this "Computer Wombling Project"? Google found nothing. Just curious.

> He has various accounts online and can't find the appropriate user name and password information.

That's bad...

> One solution is to just stick with the old computer.

OK, so this means he _has_ an old computer. Fine. So what OS is the
old computer running?

> 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.

It is probably easier to move the entire Firefox profile from old
computer to new -- so long as both are running Linux. In fact, move
his entire home directory.

> Has anyone done this successfully? As you can imagine, I am proceeding with caution.

I have not done anything like this, but I use Firefox Sync to store
all my credentials on Mozilla's servers and it syncs them from PC to
PC on its own.

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