transferring firefox and thunderbird profiles

[Ch3tan]

Can I simply transfer my firefox settings and bookmarks by copying the profile from my XP install to my vista install?

Will the same work for thunderbird and all my mailboxes?

 

[TdC]

it should, though it must end up in a slightly different place on Vista. there are some guides on teh interwebnet for you. remember to fully install TBird with a fake mail account, then simply copy the contents of your one profile (something like agfagaw.awgawg) to the other. so not the directory itself but it's contents.

 

[GReaper]

Copy everything from your %APPDATA%\Mozilla and %APPDATA%\Thunderbird directories between the two machines.

Should work just fine.

 

[ST^]

Yeah, you simply copy the contents of your profile to the new profile folder. As TdC said, they're somewhere else on Vista (c:\users instead of c:\documents and settings).

EDIT: You could try http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

 

[Yaka]

moz backup is great, just a damn shame theres no tux version

 

[phlash]

did the opposite recently, copying FF and TB profiles from XP to Ubuntu for 8 people - mount the NTFS partition, write one script and wait 15 seconds