Migrating from Firefox 59.02
Posted: 2018-04-08, 10:26
After losing around four hours of typing and discovering that Lazarus Form Recovery had been disabled at some point with no good equivalent available, I find myself seeking a new browser to try, and Pale Moon is known to me as a browser that is basically Firefox by with less drastic changes over the years.
I have successfully installed Pale Moon, and have managed to migrate my bookmarks by exporting them as html and importing that, but I find my efforts stymied by the importation of my session and history. I am aware that simply dropping the Firefox profile folder in, overwriting Pale Moon's, would likely work but would cause problems from overwriting configuration files. As such, I'd like to simply copy the relevant files.
As nearly as I can tell, this was once stored in sessionCheckpoints.json and sessionstore.js. Unfortunately, it would appear that sessionstore.js has not been written to in roughly a month - more or less when I last updated FF - and when importing the two to Pale Moon it opens a session from around that time. There is also a session.rdf, which was associated with an addon, but that appears to have stopped being written to at the same time. Meanwhile, I am quite unsure where the history is being saved.
As both of these are fairly important to me for properly comparing the two browsers before switching, I'd like to ask for help. Where can I look to find the files containing the current session of Firefox and its history?
I have successfully installed Pale Moon, and have managed to migrate my bookmarks by exporting them as html and importing that, but I find my efforts stymied by the importation of my session and history. I am aware that simply dropping the Firefox profile folder in, overwriting Pale Moon's, would likely work but would cause problems from overwriting configuration files. As such, I'd like to simply copy the relevant files.
As nearly as I can tell, this was once stored in sessionCheckpoints.json and sessionstore.js. Unfortunately, it would appear that sessionstore.js has not been written to in roughly a month - more or less when I last updated FF - and when importing the two to Pale Moon it opens a session from around that time. There is also a session.rdf, which was associated with an addon, but that appears to have stopped being written to at the same time. Meanwhile, I am quite unsure where the history is being saved.
As both of these are fairly important to me for properly comparing the two browsers before switching, I'd like to ask for help. Where can I look to find the files containing the current session of Firefox and its history?
Additionally, I do not know how to extract only the browsing history from places.sqlite without getting the file-download history and the bookmarks (which you already transferred).