Firefox needs a profile transfer from PC to PC usually donew Mozbackup

Why not just create a Firefox account and then 'Tools / Sync Now' to copy your full Firefox config to the new system?

AK6DN


I don't know the answer to that. Never considered it. Syncing thigs souns like it has something to do
with mobile devices.


One goal I have now that the topic is made is to eliminate bloat, not just copy over.


thanks for answering and keeping this going.

I re-ran Fbackup and it could be working. I was concerned it would just transfer bookmarks and not history. But it seemed to transfer the current history from PC1 to PC2.


Still twiddling with Mozbackup since it has all those options plus it works (worked) with Thunderbird.
It may still function with Thunderbird.



In the transfer App/Data manaul style what is that doing that a program is not?

loninappleton said:

In the transfer App/Data manaul style what is that doing that a program is not?

Doing the backup manually by copying the entire profile folder is simply copying the whole lot. Bookmarks, history, extensions, settings, you name it, it's all there even passwords if you use the Firefox built-in password manager.

As to that JSON file. How are you determining that it's tracking content or something? Did an antivirus or Adware program tell you that?

You can clean up Firefox a little. By far the biggest would be to just dump the cache and history. If you have the toolbar shown above in Firefox, just go to History and you can clear out everything by a time or just Everything. Or press and hold the keyboard keys, control + shift + delete to open this History menu.

What is the name of your username on your computer? I can see about creating a batch script or a Freefilesync backup file or show you how to do it with Freefilesync and that would be a sure fire way of backing up everything from the Firefox and Thunderbird profiles. Then I can tell you how to restore it.

As to the parental control program. I'm not sure if that's Windows 7 related or not. I don't think it is, and it sounds like a running process in the background from a parental control program. You may have this program installed and/or there's an extension or plugin installed in Firefox that somehow got in there for parental control.

What I would do first is use Revouninstaller and go through all installed programs looking for a parental control program of some sorts. If you don't know what a program is in the list then I'd Google it and see what it is.

Revo Uninstaller Free - Remove unwanted programs easily

Apologies for the delay in reply. I did not get an email notification. Just checked in and saw new messages.


FBackup may be enough.


My user name on system is lon(lower case 'el'.) It's just my computer on a small home net
similarly named. No idea of the parental control but the suggestion for Revo is a good one. I use it
all the time be usually as a need arises.

Services - Parental Controls service


Parental controls is a windows function. I have no clue how it got turned on or what it's doing.
I just made a quick search using windows 7 services + parental.

So your username is lonel?

Apologies. I was not clear. username is lon


(with lower case "L" which is often seen as a capital "I")