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Bug in Importing Firefox History & Passwords !
rishavsharan
Dozens of machines and a lot more people complaining and it's a FF bug ??!!
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
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\
- HotCakeXSep 18, 2020MVPSpoiler
Omar-Os wrote:HotCakeX
It would have been my problem if it happened on a machine or 2
But not on every single machine I tested (mine or not and mostly not mine) for the past 1.5 years !
And I chatted with them before and sent a lot of things they asked from me and they know that it's their problem, so you can just stop now you are not helping anyone at all.I am helping them to know that it's not a universal bug thus not happening to everyone, so in case they wanna change something, better keep that in mind so that they won't break something that is already working, accidentally.
your initial post is about Edge or Chromium browsers in general not having the option to import from Firefox. it wasn't about Edge having problem with Firefox import.
so the responses you received from Microsoft employees were not about Edge having problem, but about Edge not having Import option from Firefox.
you refuse to try to reinstall Firefox and Edge on a new Windows installation, even though you are using sync in those browsers.
you refuse to try the import, like I did, on a brand new installation.
it's not about how many machines you try, you could configure all of them the same way, install the same thing on all of them and so they all get the same problem.
- Omar-OsSep 18, 2020Iron Contributor
HotCakeX
It would have been my problem if it happened on a machine or 2
But not on every single machine I tested (mine or not and mostly not mine) for the past 1.5 years !
And I chatted with them before and sent a lot of things they asked from me and they know that it's their problem, so you can just stop now you are not helping anyone at all. - HotCakeXSep 18, 2020MVP
Well, I told you what to do, and you even said that it doesn't work on a brand new machine and Windows installation, which is Not true, as you can see in the video. lying or not it's all up to you, not judging.
I'm just telling you that your Firefox data might be corrupted and years of history that you got there, like you said, could also be an issue and cause problem.
the fact that you don't want to do anything and just ask Microsoft to fix a problem (that might not even exist) and that is not universal, is a bad idea. they might break something that otherwise works just fine and cause further issues some other place in the code.
I'm not talking about others (family, friends etc), if you want I can say that it works fine for my family, friends etc.
- Omar-OsSep 18, 2020Iron Contributor
HotCakeX
Good for you, it doesn't work for me and dozens of machines of my family, friends and at work. And it doesn't work for plenty of other people. So you can stop saying "It's working It's working" every single minute.
And I'm not lying in case if you are suggesting that. - HotCakeXSep 18, 2020MVPvideo?
- HotCakeXSep 18, 2020MVP
Deleted rishavsharan
The Firefox import works perfectly, I tried it on multiple devices in multiple versions of Firefox and Edge, during multiple builds of Windows 10, every time I tried it it worked.
- Edge: 80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 86 (currently beta)
- Firefox: 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81 (currently beta)
please don't change anything in Edge in regard to Firefox import because you might break it and stop it from working.
your Firefox data might be corrupted, do a refresh and clean reinstallation.
to really test it, clean install Windows 10 on a machine, virtual or not, then install Firefox and Edge, do the import, it will work. if it doesn't work in that new clean environment, record a quick video of the process and the error you get and post it here.