When migrating your Firefox profile, make sure you migrate your bookmarks and security certificates as well
When you are planning to migrate the settings of your Firefox web browsing software application profile to another Firefox web browser profile, you will have to make sure that the files dealing with the following aspects of the Firefox profile are migrated as well.
Bookmarks
It would not be incorrect to say that the biggest advantage offered by the Firefox profile feature is the fact that it enables each and every end user of the Firefox web browsing software application to have his or her own set of bookmarks. If there are five members in a single family and if each and every member has twenty web sites bookmarked into the Firefox web browser, the total number of bookmarked web site would exceed one hundred web sites. Of course, there is absolutely no doubt that the limit of twenty websites per person is too unrealistic. In reality, each and every individual has an average of fifty websites bookmarked in the Firefox web browsing software application because he or she likes those websites. Hence, at any given point of time, the web browser software application would be storing anything from one hundred website to two hundred and fifty web sites as bookmarks. If each and every bookmarked web site were to be stored in a single folder in each and every bookmarked web site were to be accessible to each and every end user, the resulting confusion can easily be imagined. The Firefox profile feature offers the feature of having different bookmarks for different profiles. Once you log into your Firefox profile, you will have access to bookmarks belonging to that profile only. This creates a problem as far as migration of profiles is concerned. When you are migrating your profile settings from one profile to another, you have to make sure that the bookmark settings of the profile being migrated is properly incorporate into the new profile. If this is not done so properly, you will end up without access to your bookmarks.
Security certificates
Each and every web site is issued a security certificate by properly authorized certifying agencies. The basic purpose of the security certificate is to certify that the security features of the web site or the web page being viewed by the Firefox web browser certified software application is satisfactory or not. If the security measures incorporated into the web page are not satisfactory, security certificate of the web site would state so and the Firefox web browsing software application accessing the security certificate would draw the attention of the end user of the web browsing software application to the same. The information related to the security features of any web page or website is often stored in the web browser software application. This ensures that the web browsing software application does not have to check the security certificate again and again unless it has changed. When you visit a particular website, the Firefox web browsing software application checks its security certificate and informs you whether the security measures incorporated into the website are satisfactory or not. While you are not restricted from continuing using the said webpage just because the security measures are unsatisfactory, you certainly are warned in advance about the possibility of security flaws. The security certificate information is stored in the Firefox profile and they make it very easy for a particular Firefox profile to access and work on certain websites. If the security certificate information is not copied or migrated into the new Firefox profile, the whole process of accessing, reviewing and compiling information about the security features of various web sites will have been done all over again.
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