How to import and export Cookies and Favorites in FireFox

FireFox is a commonly used browser with many extensions and plug-ins. It has many advantages over IE, but some small details seem to be not well considered. For example, users often encounter problems such as system reinstallation, which requires importing and exporting the Cookies and Favorites of the FireFox browser. Unfortunately, FireFox only provides the function of importing IE's Cookies and Favorites by default. After some attempts, I found a method to manually import and export FireFox's Cookies and Favorites.

Cookies:

First, open "My Computer", click "Tools" - "Folder Options" - "View", select "Show hidden files and folders", and then open the folder C:\Documents and Settings\your user name\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\random directory. Note that the last folder is a random directory. After entering this directory, find the two files cookies.txt and bookmarks.html. These two files are Cookies and Favorites files. Copy these two files to a similar directory on another machine, overwriting the files with the same name, and you have completed the export and import of Cookies and Favorites of FireFox.

Bookmarks:

In addition, FireFox's favorites (bookmarks) can also be exported directly through the menu options. The specific method is: open Firefox, click "Bookmarks -> Bookmark Management" to start the Bookmark Manager, and click "File -> Export" to back up existing bookmarks. On another machine, use the "Import" function of the bookmark to import the backed up bookmarks into the new Firefox configuration.

The last method is to use a FireFox plugin. If you feel that you trust Google, you can install the Google Browser Sync plug-in developed by Google, which can save your FireFox settings such as bookmarks, history, saved passwords and cookies into your own Google account. You can use your Google account to log in to synchronize the browser content on another machine. Of course, please do not use this plug-in in unsafe places such as Internet cafes, otherwise it will cause great security problems.