Hello, I haven’t used my Purism laptop for a while and was surprised to see that PureBrowser is gone now and replaces with Firefox. My question is, what happened to my saved login/passwords and bookmarks that were saved on PureBrower? Is there any possible way to recover it?
I had posted the answer to Reddit. The short version for those pretty good at Unix stuff:
- Launch FireFox ESR (not sure if this is necessary, but you do need the
~/.mozilla/firefox/*_default-esr
directory to exist). - There should now be exactly one directory in response to
ls -d ~/.mozilla/firefox/*_default-esr
. Make note of this directory path which I’ll refer to as$mozdir
. - Remove all the files in this directory like
rm -r $mozdir/*
. Also remove any.
files found when youcd $mozdir; ls -a
. (I found.parentlock
.) - Copy everything in your PureBrowser directory over (including hidden
.
files) bycp -R ~/.purism/purebrowser/*.default/* $mozdir
. Again, copy any hidden files. - When you next launch Firefox ESR it should have all your bookmarks, preferences, tabs, etc.
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