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

Mozbackup a Firefox specialy program was always my prefered way of getting a Firefox Profile transfered from on PC to another forgetting bookmark the same for multiple machines. Sometimes things I forgot could be retrieved. It has worked over many years but now fails in latest Firefox update versions.


MozBackup - Backup tool for Firefox and Thunderbird





Mozilla help will say Mozbackup has not been updated since 2012. Then they give instructions on how to
transfer a profile which I can never understand. Is there any advice here to clarify that procedure? The directory trees and such to navigate in Firefox is confusing. No youtubes please. I do not care to follow the bouncing cursor around one of those.



A series of steps is what I need and written out to follow.


Also, if the sevenforms can find a current Mozbackup tool I have missed that would be best.
Any profile transfer technique will not include the features that Mozbackup had for selective editing
of features.

If you want to go the program route, try one of these:


Simple Firefox Backup - backup your Firefox profile

FavBackup - backup and restore web browser favorites

Firefox Extension Backup (FEBE) - backup your Firefox extensions

I have a flash drive. I'll try it.

Simple Firefox Backup seems to work a treat. But I'm going to try the manual procedure as well.
and

Mozbackup could do Thunberbird as well....
Anything on that?



My vote is for someone to develope a new Mozbackup that gives all the

options to delete the extras that Mozilla collects under the Mozbackup advanced tab.

I have used the path given above opened in the Everything program (the only way I can find anything)


I selected copy everything showing which is a lot. The small thumb drive has not finished or loaded past
capacity yet. It's over a 1Gb of material.


Is there a way to delete any old material in the Profile-- that stuff that Mozilla collects to slim down
the Profile to what is needed?


Using that Fbackup program was super quick. I don't understand the difference but I sure could use
getting some disk space back.


onward

My dump to the thumb drive failed when I tried to reopen and try to do something else. So a complete shutdown is needed. That backup hung up at a program called parental lock-- something I had never seen at age 73. Ok for that.


But there seems to be a lot of tracking content in the profile called JSONLZ4. I don't know if that is from each time a bookmark is opened or what. Is that just History to go and lookup a past search?

I will be able to mark solved. I am a fool. Mozbackup still works on Firefox 80.0. I think I looked for the pcv file in the wrong directory. I'm still going to try to move the pcv file around to another PC.



But these alternatives are good to explore.


I still want to know how clean Firefox.

I think I spoke too soon on a solution. Mozbackup runs but I don't see the bookmarks moved to the target PC.


more to do.