OK, did it! It took almost 48 hrs. to copy ~/.mozilla and finally replace the OS version with my old one and voila! I have all of my FF everything. I even have the seriously deprecated scrapbook which has years or research data and websites and I can view them (in a seriously deprecated FF version but the last that supported scrapbook). I need to somehow deal with these as I can preserve them but with new FF versions not view them. I can run two versions of FF but that's a pain. In any case all of my history, bookmarks, scrapbook, passwords, etc. are all there. Now I need to deal with it.

I don't know why copying .mozilla took so long but it is about 6.3GB but well over 1MB files! The main thing is that it worked. I hate migrating to a new drive or OS. Actually the drive is easy with dd. It's the using a new OS that creates the issues of time, after time...

Thanks for all the interest.

Cheers and I'll make the next meeting and bring the laptop along. Meanwhile I have lots of programs to install so that part is up to snuff.

Brian

Brian O'Keefe writes:

   Thanks Ted. I wonder why it happened? I got my email all migrated but
   my FF bookmarks, history, passwords are proving to be much more
   difficult. I have copied over my profile to no avail. I'm now going to
   copy my entire ~/.mozilla folder which is huge and will take much time.
   Hopefully though it will work. Other migrations only ever required my
   FF profile.

In case you haven't already done it: you should be able to backup or
export your bookmarks from the Show All Bookmarks window, then
restore/import them in the new Firefox. That saves you from having
to move places.sqlite which at least in my firefox profile is the
lion's share of the profile's disk space. (It used to be the cache
directory, which I don't see any more, so maybe that got sucked into
places.sqlite too.) You still might want to copy the rest of the
Firefox folder to save your preferences, extensions and so on, but
they'll be small compared to places.sqlite.

        ...Akkana
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