Do a search on mint 22 and Firefox and found the linux forum mentions up to version and they said this for the OS.

"Firefox 129.0.1 Been Released For Mint 22"

I installed Mint 22 on a test machine and it has Firefox 134.0.2 as part of the initial installation.

My question isn't about what version is available on Mint but if there are any issues with taking the profile from the 113.0.2 version and copying to the new machine which is running 134.0.2. Will 134 read the profile w/o a problem?

Do a search on mint 22 and Firefox and found the linux forum mentions up to version and they said this for the OS. "Firefox 129.0.1 Been Released For Mint 22"

Honestly, this is hard to know. As long as you have a clean backup copy, you might need to just try it.

For your further research and experimentation:

Firefox makes small incremental file format changes from version to version, and retains code for upconversion for an unknown non-infinite amount of time.

I think it is safe to assume that the base ESR version still has the conversion code for the previous base ESR version. For example, Firefox 128.x could seamlessly convert Firefox 115.x - 127.x files (earlier files unknown); Firefox 115.x could seamlessly convert Firefox 102.x - 114.x files (earlier files unknown); and so forth.

Do a search on mint 22 and Firefox and found the linux forum mentions up to version and they said this for the OS. "Firefox 129.0.1 Been Released For Mint 22"

You can run the Firefox 135.0 on the Linux distro Mint just fine as the Firefox 129.0.1 you mention is a random old Release from August 13, 2024.

Thank you!

I've got an older machine to test on but wanted to figure out the process beforehand.

And I've got a Windows 7 machine running 115ESR so if the direct move fails I can try upgrading the profile to 115 and from there to 134.0.2. If that fails try 113.0.2 -> 115 -> 127 -> 134.

Honestly, this is hard to know. As long as you have a clean backup copy, you might need to just try it. ... I think it is safe to assume that the base ESR version still has the conversion code for the previous base ESR version. For example, Firefox 128.x could seamlessly convert Firefox 115.x - 127.x files (earlier files unknown); Firefox 115.x could seamlessly convert Firefox 102.x - 114.x files (earlier files unknown); and so forth.

Why not just use sync to get your data onto the new pc? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-set-sync-my-computer https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-choose-what-information-sync-firefox

Thank you. I wasn't familiar with sync. But I've move profiles from machine to machine for years.

If I read it correctly, I'd need three accounts as I have 3 profiles: 1 fully locked down, 1 slightly locked down and 1 out-of-the-box. Many sites work with the fully locked down, almost all the rest with the slightly locked down profile. The out-of-the-box profile is for the rest.

And I am not the only user with this kind of set up. Copying seems easier than managing multiple accounts per user. But I'll add sync to my list to check out later. Thank you for the suggestion.

Why not just use sync to get your data onto the new pc? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-set-sync-my-computer https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-choose-what-information-sync-firefox

Moving from an older Ubuntu 18.04 machine where Firefox is limited to version 113 to a newer machine running Mint 22 where the current version is 134.

Btw you can likely run the current Firefox versions like 135.0 Release or 128.7.9esr on that old Ubuntu 18.04 system by using the Linux tarball version of Firefox from Mozilla. You just need to extract it as a folder and run the firefox script or firefox-bin. There is a Firefox icon in the firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/ to use for your lancher shortcut. Just make sure the Firefox folder has read/write permissions for the user to get internal Firefox updates from Mozilla. An eaay way is to have Firefox folder in /Home

Firefox 135.0 for 64-bit and 32-bit Linux. https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/desktop-release/linux64/ https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/desktop-release/linux/

Firefox 128.7.0esr for 64-bit and 32-bit Linux. https://www.mozilla.org//firefox/all/desktop-esr/linux64/ https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/desktop-esr/linux/

The Mint team appears to be late in making a Firefox 135.0 package available as this thread was posted today on the linuxmint forum https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=440090

It just worked.

I set up a test machine, ran Firefox profile manager, set up a new profile, copied the contents of my existing profile into the new folder then used the profile manager to run it.

No problems as far as I can tell. Existing windows & tabs, bookmarks, history, saved logins, add-ons all seem right.

Honestly, this is hard to know. As long as you have a clean backup copy, you might need to just try it.

Thank you for the information.

I had considered taking the time to get a more recent version set up but have enough problems with Ubuntu 18.04 that I rather spend my time upgrading the OS and all the apps then trying to get them to work on our older OS.

Luke said

Moving from an older Ubuntu 18.04 machine where Firefox is limited to version 113 to a newer machine running Mint 22 where the current version is 134.

Btw you can likely run the current Firefox versions like 135.0 Release or 128.7.9esr on that old Ubuntu 18.04 system by using the Linux tarball version of Firefox from Mozilla. You just need to extract it as a folder and run the firefox script or firefox-bin. There is a Firefox icon in the firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/ to use for your lancher shortcut. Just make sure the Firefox folder has read/write permissions for the user to get internal Firefox updates from Mozilla. An eaay way is to have Firefox folder in /Home ...

The Mint team appears to be late in making a Firefox 135.0 package available as this thread was posted today on the linuxmint forum https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=440090

From that linuxmint thread.

I asked the developers about this and was first told it was already available until they did a double-check. Thunderbird and Chrome were done over the weekend and it was thought Firefox was too. It should be coming soon now they have realized it didn't make it out. Sorry for the delay.

So it looks like Firefox 135.0 package will be up soon.

Btw the current Firefox package in repository is now Firefox 135.0

http://packages.linuxmint.com/search.php?release=wilma&section=any&keyword=firefox