Select your renamed profile from the list options and check the box to set it as the default.ħ. Run Firefox -P in a terminal and then press enter. Close the file manager, and any open instance of FirefoxĦ. (You can do this graphically if you check the box that says "view hidden files and folders" in the view menu of your file manager.)ĥ. Paste the renamed profile folder into the hidden directory described above. Important, on the external storage, rename the profile from its random jumble of letters to something descriptive like "fromwin"Ĥ. Copy the profile onto some external storageģ. If that doesn't work, and you still have your properly configured Firefox profile on a separate Windows box, you should be able to start over simply like this.Ģ. There should be a simple checkbox that lets you set this profile as your default, check the checkbox and then open that profile. Hopefully, you have at least three profiles there, default, default release, and, where the last one is the one you moved from Windows. In your terminal window type Firefox -P and then press enter. I've had a similar issue, I suspect you haven't lost the data, and the issue is with your profile manager. Unbelievably today, all my Firefox parameters have just disappeared, it's back to a completely blank state?!?!? 'Seriously' how could this happen?!?!? So, is it possible to deactivate the encryption setup?įIREFOX DATA LOSS PROBLEM: It took me ages to get all of my parameters (passwords/bookmarks) into my Linux Firefox (after which I then spent time reorganising my bookmarks re smaller screen size), so I've been using it for days logging into various sites (including eBay) with everything working. So, I can see the 360 GB partition, but I cannot move the slider. It's taken me ages to eventually figure out that this is likely because I was encouraged to activate and then actually activated the 'encrypted' install. Unfortunately, on selecting the 320 GB partition it just won't let me do this. I eventually found gparted and eventually figured out to boot LM from a USB install, so I could reduce the partition.
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ONE BIG DISK PARTITION PROBLEM: I installed, LM completely replacing a Windows install on a Dell Inspiron laptop, unfortunately this resulted in the LM (Mate) install all being within one partition.
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The one thing you may be a little weary of is Mozilla getting smaller and smaller, and perhaps at some point due to wanting to monetise more data burying a change as to its handling of sync data in an update EULA that you will not be reading - although in the Linux community you can be quite sure that someone will and will be throwing up a massive stink, at which point you'd simply stop using Firefox Sync again.įirefox Sync is in any case in its current form quite safe and private enough for me at least. There's a nice description at and including a description of what Chrome and a few other browsers do. The fact that it is in fact deleted you can be sure of due to your sync data never having left your own systems unencrypted and the encryption key having never left your systems, period: Moziila can't read it anyway so there's no reason they would keep it against your will. If you in Preferences -> Sync uncheck some or all part(s) of to be synced data said part(s) is/are deleted from your sync data on the server (or you can delete your Firefox account entirely and recreate it to completely start new). I was sure that Firefox would hold a permanent copy of it 'somewhere' (which I'm not keen on).