{"id":4876,"date":"2008-03-28T14:15:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T13:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-move-firefox-settings-from-one-pc-to-another\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:32:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:32:50","slug":"how-to-move-firefox-settings-from-one-pc-to-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-move-firefox-settings-from-one-pc-to-another\/","title":{"rendered":"How to move Firefox settings from one PC to another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/03\/backup.png\" alt=\"Move Firefox settings from one PC to another\" align=\"left\" \/>I recently upgraded my computer and therefore had to go through the pain of installing the whole operating system and <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/the-first-ten-applications-on-your-pc\/\">all my favorite applications<\/a> from scratch. Luckily they&#8217;re not that many and some of them make the process of moving to a new PC a lot easier these days.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m talking particularly about Firefox, which features an embedded tool to backup bookmarks and import them back to your newly installed Firefox anywhere else. To use it, just go to <em>Bookmarks &gt; Organize Bookmarks<\/em> and once you&#8217;re in the Bookmark Manager, go to <em>File &gt; Export<\/em>. Firefox will save all your bookmarks as an HTML file which you can import later in exactly the same place.<\/p>\n<p>Also, for those of you who make use of the Firefox built-in password manager, you may also want to backup your passwords. While Firefox doesn&#8217;t feature an special embedded tool for that like it does for bookmarks, you can use <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/2848\">this handy extension<\/a>. Password Exporter lets you backup all saved passwords to a CSV or XML file and import them in another computer.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if you&#8217;d like to make a copy of your whole <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-manage-firefox-profiles\/\">user profile<\/a> in Firefox, I definitely recommend using <a href=\"http:\/\/mozbackup.jasnapaka.com\/\">MozBackup<\/a>. This excellent tool will backup your whole profile including bookmarks, browsing history, cookies, passwords and cache. I used it to move all my data from the old PC to the new one and it worked perfectly well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently upgraded my computer and therefore had to go through the pain of installing the whole operating system and all my favorite applications from scratch. Luckily they&#8217;re not that many and some of them make the process of moving to a new PC a lot easier these days. I&#8217;m talking particularly about Firefox, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-move-firefox-settings-from-one-pc-to-another\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to move Firefox settings from one PC to another&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-4876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336241,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions\/336241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}