Transferring Firefox cookies

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Liam,

On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 at 13:37, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 at 11:59, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >there
> > 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.
>

It is just a local project instigated by me some years ago, with the intent
of refurbishing old computers and giving them away to people with mental
health problems, their families, or carers. The idea is to give the
disadvantaged an opportunity to gain digital skills. I did have some
documentation - a rough guide to running lubuntu etc but Google has decided
to not let me have downloadable files from
https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/ any more. I've recently written
a rough guide to using Ubuntu (15 pages long) but it isn't online at the
moment.

> He has various accounts online and can't find the appropriate user name
> and password information.
>
> That's bad...
>
Yes. Firefox, as you know, can track passwords. Firefox, I discovered from
someone else today, can export  saved passwords as a CSV file (with website
address, username, password, and a few other things as well. We went down
that route. It wasn't a perfect solution - some passwords might be
obsolete, some passwords weren't there. It is an ongoing process. I've left
a USB memory stick with a copy of the old computer's ~/.mozilla/firefox
directory with the friend.


> > 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?
>
lubuntu 18.04.something.


> 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.
>
Yes. If the approach taken turns out to be unsuitable, we might just do
that.


> > 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.
>
That is also a possibility, thank you. I haven't tried it, though.

BW,


Ian

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