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... > > > > It *always* tries to overwrite bookmarks, even when invoked from history dialog .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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