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#1 2013-10-09 11:58:52

marcus-aurelius
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Move from chromium to firefox

Hello everybody,

I want to move my data from Chromium to Firefox on Arch Linux. Unfortunatley if I launch Firefox and try to import the data with the import assistant in the bookmarks manager the program tells me that it is not able to find any other webbrowser which is perfectly wrong. Both are installed. Any ideas what's wrong?

Perhaps I have to move/rename some folder of Chromium so that Firefox does recognize everything I want?

Thank you in advance

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#2 2013-10-09 12:04:47

karol
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Re: Move from chromium to firefox

Have you tried exporting your bookmarks to html file and importing that file to firefox?

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#3 2013-10-09 16:08:12

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Re: Move from chromium to firefox

I think it might help to try to figure out what it is that Firefox is actually looking for in its search for "any other webbrowser".  I am not a Firfox user, nor am I a Chromium user, so I cannot really help in that regard. 

But I do think that karol's idea of simply exporting the bookmarks to a file seem the most sane to me.

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#4 2013-10-09 16:42:54

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Re: Move from chromium to firefox

out of curiousity, WonderWoofy which one do you use ?


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#5 2013-10-09 16:46:15

cris9288
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Re: Move from chromium to firefox

That solution worked for me before. Have chromium export your bookmarks as an HTML file and have firefox import that file. Worked out fine for me.

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#6 2013-10-09 16:58:07

WonderWoofy
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Re: Move from chromium to firefox

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#7 2013-10-09 18:57:22

marcus-aurelius
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Re: Move from chromium to firefox

I already know of the export to and import from html solution. Of course that would work. But that wouldn't help for passwords, and – especially – not for history. Therefore I would prefer to use the described function.

I think that's a bug that it doesn't work. But from the arch-package or from firefox directly? Is there really nobody who wanted to switch from one browser to the other?

Last edited by marcus-aurelius (2013-10-09 19:01:35)

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#8 2013-10-09 18:59:54

WonderWoofy
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Re: Move from chromium to firefox

I think it might be a bit premature to call it a bug.  Again, you should try to figure out what it is that Firefox is looking for in identifying an additional browser.  If, for instance, it is looking for a .desktop file, and chromium has one, then that would likely be a bug.  But I really have no idea what it would actually be looking for.

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#9 2013-10-10 01:57:57

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Re: Move from chromium to firefox

Mozilla's site only mentions being able to do this for IE and Chrome. Are you sure Chromium is supported?


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#10 2013-10-10 03:29:28

ANOKNUSA
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Re: Move from chromium to firefox

I'd hardly consider it a flaw that you have to punch your password in one more time.

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