Why not Firefox 22 import profiles?

I have upgraded to Windows 8 and 22 FF, unfortunately there is no Manager profile and no way I can find to import any old preferences. The information in the Support section seems hopelessly obsolete.

And a Google search brings nothing useful.

Does anyone know if there is a way to import your old settings in FF?

Thank you

The Profile Manager is a method or a mode that can be launched by a number of different commands 'run '. It is available or not in a search, only via the command line - with closed Firefoxfolder.

Firefox.exe Pei is the simplest and most common command.

The most common command are the following, depending on your Windows operating system; assuming a default installation location - not a user selected "custom" location

  • On 32-bit Windows: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" PEI
  • On 64-bit Windows: "C:\Program Files (x 86) \Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" PEI

But you don't need to create a new profile in the new installation of Firefox, you can use the 'new' profile Firefox created during installation; Simply copy the files on to this 'new' profile of the old profile folder folder. You must keep the same profile name, as installing Firefox expects to find, or you will have a major problem.

What you need to do is to copy content from an old profile to new profile, replacing the new existing files by older files when Windows Explorer asks you what to do.

If you copy the entire folder (and remove the 'new' profile), the profile folder name corresponds to what the new installation of Firefox is expected to find - this is why the message "missing profile". And if you do not remove the 'new' profile, Firefox will continue to use this profile - no one liked you just copied on.

The name of profile (or names, in the case of several profiles) has the match exactly what is listed in the file profiles.ini, or Firefox won't 'see' this profile and won't be able to use it.

Please review this section of this article to support and ignore everything above this section.

https://support.Mozilla.org/en-us/KB/recovering%20important%20data%20from%20an%20old%20Profile#w_copying-files-between-profile-folders

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