backup firefox preferences moving cookies and saved passwords

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Profile backup - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
I am moving to my new laptop, and didn't copy all the settings over, this page explians which files are what, and how to move profiles in firefox.
In some situations you might want to back up only certain files from your profile folder. Below are a few suggested files, but see this more extensive list to choose the specific files you want to back up.

  • bookmarks.html — Bookmarks.
  • prefs.js — Current user preferences.
  • user.js — User-added preferences (overrides prefs.js every startup).
  • cookies.txt — Cookies.
  • hostperm.1 — Cookies permissions, image permissions, and extension website install permissions list.
  • signons.txt — Saved passwords. Requires the "key3.db" file to work.
  • key3.db — Supplements password file.
  • cert8.db — Needed for key3.db file.

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Waide said:

signons.txt is not on my machine and I had about 30 or so passwords saved before my profile was corrupted. Any ideas?

rollie said:

Thank you sir, you've saved a ton of headache trying to restore my FF.

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