Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:58:17 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to import firefox history from old machine .... Message-ID: <53EF8DA9.7030309@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20140815192803.4cef2056.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <53EE3A63.8060309@hiwaay.net> <20140815192803.4cef2056.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 08/15/14 12:28, Polytropon wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:50:43 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> I have 1 more vexing task: I want to import my history data for firefox
>> from my old desktop. Whenever I open the history dialog to do that &
>> select import from HTML, it threatens to overwrite bookmarks, not
>> history data .... FF bug ? Any workarounds ?
> You have the ~/.mozilla/firefox/ subtree to examine. Also
> have a look for import / export functions inside Firefox:
> You probably have been using the function to import the
> history _as bookmarks_, which isn't what you want. So
> maybe it's easier to identify the history file within
> the source subtree and copy it to the destination subtree,
> while Firefox is not running. But sadly I can't tell you
> which file that would exactly be...
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It *always* tries to overwrite bookmarks, even when invoked from history
dialog ....
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William A. Mahaffey III
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