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Are Firefox profiles platform independant?

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I would like to transfer my profile data from Windows 7 to Debian 7. for some reason the Sync feature just isn't working for me.

So My question is, are Firefox profiles cross platform compatible?

eg. can I just simply copy my profile from windows... "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile folder>" to my profile on linux?... "~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile folder>"

I would like to transfer my profile data from Windows 7 to Debian 7. for some reason the Sync feature just isn't working for me. So My question is, are Firefox profiles cross platform compatible? eg. can I just simply copy my profile from windows... "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile folder>" to my profile on linux?... "~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile folder>"

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தீர்வு தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டது

Not 100% compatible. Some preferences in the prefs.js file (basically files paths from what I have observed) and some files added by add-ons may not be entirely compatible.


My advice is to copy the individual files in the Profile folder one at a time, using this as a guide as to which files to copy.
recovering important data from an old Profile

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தீர்வு தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டது

Not 100% compatible. Some preferences in the prefs.js file (basically files paths from what I have observed) and some files added by add-ons may not be entirely compatible.


My advice is to copy the individual files in the Profile folder one at a time, using this as a guide as to which files to copy.
recovering important data from an old Profile

hmm, well would my Tab Groups copy over? and what file are those stored on?

AH I think i found a sufficient answer here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/877497


Thank you for your help!