I’m sorry to those that seen this from asklemmy comm. Didn’t read the rules. Reposting here.
Both are Windows machines. I know, don’t need to preach about it.
I like how I set up the Firefox install on my PC and getting around to using it again for work because of multi account containers. Did the testing on my personal PC in case some things break with the hardening I chose for my threat model.
I just don’t want to repeat the steps again, even if I already know what worked for me.
I found online that I could just copy the Firefox profile folder. Is that just it?
If it’s the copy profile way, is the profile from a base Firefox compatible for other forks? If it’s not the profile copying way, is the other ways compatible moving from base firefox to its forks?
TIA
Will this copy saved passwords as well? They might not want saved personal passwords to go on the work computer.
Yes, it will copy everything related to that profile. The passwords are stored in the key4.db file so it shouldn’t be copied in that situation.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data#w_what-information-is-stored-in-my-profile
Then there’s also the sync feature which might import the passwords even if the file has been deleted, so the sync needs to be disabled on the work pc.
Cool, didn’t know where they were stored exactly. Thanks for investigating :)