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My old pc died, new pc- installed old hard drive with firefox so it's in there, how do I import the old FF to the new FF?

0dee
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My old pc died, so I retrieved old hard disc and had it added to the new computer as a secondary disc. So I know Firefox is on it. Download another Firefox but cannnot work out how to import my old settings/favourites from the other hard-drive...can you help please?

My old pc died, so I retrieved old hard disc and had it added to the new computer as a secondary disc. So I know Firefox is on it. Download another Firefox but cannnot work out how to import my old settings/favourites from the other hard-drive...can you help please?

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering+important+data+from+an+old+profile

Your old Profile is located here in Vista & Win7:
drive:\Users\Windows login user name\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\profile_name