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Copper Contributor

Dec 23, 2019

Edge Beta won't import Firefox Browser Data.

On several Windows 10 PCs (Version 1909 build 18363.535) Edge Beta 79.0.309.54 refuses to import Browser data from Firefox 71.0 (and previous). All attempts result in a box saying "To finish importin...

Anonymous

Jan 09, 2020

Hoosier_Daddy We're so sorry to hear that you're encountering that issue! The team has made a lot of improvements in the latest versions of Edge Canary and Dev; can you please try repeating the process on one of those channels and letting us know is the importing problem persists?

Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge

Omar-Os

Iron Contributor

Sep 18, 2020

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Still doesn't work after almost a year..
Not on beta, dev or stable..

cjc2112
Bronze Contributor
Sep 21, 2020
Omar-Os I get your point that it needs to do it automatically, but you can do it manually if needed. Look up to my post above for instructions and pictures how.
- Omar-Os
  Iron Contributor
  Sep 21, 2020
  cjc2112
  I know about your solution but sorry it's useless.. it only moves the bookmarks and without even their icons.
  I need all the data from Firefox: years of histories, hundreds of login info, a lot of extensions and around 1000 bookmarks.
  - Omar-Os
    Iron Contributor
    Feb 13, 2021
    Omar-Os
    
    After more than 1.5 years I finally fixed this issue by creating a new profile in Firefox then removed it immediately, now Edge detects my default Firefox profile.
    No thanks to Edge dev team.