Which profile is used by Firefox
I've been mostly successful in migrating to a new Win 7 machine from an XP machine. I'm stuck on not being able migrate my personal Firefox profile. I was successful with my wife's profile. I can see my Profile folder and there are multiple *.default files. Which one does Firefox use to allow my browser to use my old browser settings. How can I tell if there is something missing in this file that is preventing FF from restoring my browser settings?
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If you have multiple profiles, chances are that you specify which profile you want to start in when you first start Firefox. You can also run firefox.exe -p (with Firefox closed down) to open the Profile Manager, select your profile, then click Start Firefox. Once Firefox opens, you should be able to go to Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory > Show Folder (menu bar), or orange Firefox button > About > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory > Show Folder. Once you click Show Folder, your profile settings and file will pop up and you can transfer over whatever data you want to.
- places.sqlite (Bookmarks and Browsing History)
- key3.db & signons.sqlite (Passwords; both are required)
- More files and their meanings located at Files to transfer from profile to profile
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