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Wo archive tread sia. Meɖekuku bia biabia yeye ne ehia kpeɖeŋu.

I wish to move the preferences from my desktop (Mac) to my new laptop. I cannot find the preferences folder to copy onto a flash drive.

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ravenfox
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This is simply finding the Firefox preferences folder, copying to a flash drive, and moving into my laptop preferences

This is simply finding the Firefox preferences folder, copying to a flash drive, and moving into my laptop preferences

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John99
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I use Windows but presumably there is a similar procedure on a Mac, and firefox will offer to open your profile folder where all this information is stored if you use the troubleshooting option.