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Omar-Os
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Aug 13, 2019
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Bug in Importing Firefox History & Passwords !

Please let us have the option to import everything from Firefox! History & Passwords ! Not just the bookmarks! I've been using Firefox since 2004 and this is the first time that I'll completely ditc...
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    Omar-Os
    Feb 13, 2021

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    No thanks to Edge dev/support team, After more than 1.5 years I finally just fixed this issue by creating a new profile in Firefox then removed it immediately, now Edge detects my default Firefox profile! Which proves that it was an Edge detection issue not Firefox's.

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Omar-Os
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May 18, 2020

rishavsharan 
Dozens of machines and a lot more people complaining and it's a FF bug ??!! :unamused::unamused:
BTW it's happening since the first build of Chromium Edge which means around a year and a half ago with all Firefox versions all that time including the Firefox ESR, nightly and Betas as well.
And all was tested on Edge Canary, Dev, Beta & Stable.. on Windows 7,8,10 x86 and x64 and it's always the same, no Firefox option! I thought you don't have the option to import Firefox until  I saw people sending me screenshots telling me it's there! Which I hardly believe right now..

Edge must be is looking in an old profile location of Firefox that isn't there anymore :facepalm:
Mine and all the others are always in the default location:

Install Location: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\
Root Directory: C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
Local Directory: C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\

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rishavsharan
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May 18, 2020
Historically we have had issues with recognizing the profile paths for non standard installations (policy driven installs, portable installs etc) so it was better for me to ask. But yes, this would be our bug and not FFs. I have taken a bug on this in our roadmap.