Migrating from Windows to GNU/Linux
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Migrating from Windows to GNU/Linux edit (Category edit)
[edit] Migrating Firefox
All I had to do was copy my Firefox profile from my Windows partition (specifically, from /media/sdb6/User Data/Programs/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/Tyler) to the respective location for profiles under Linux (/home/tyler/.mozilla/firefox/Tyler) and modify /home/tyler/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini to point to the new profile. Easy!
When I started up Firefox, it worked pretty much identically to how it was on Windows: the session manager prompted me whether I wanted to load my last session; my bookmarks were the same; even my cookies were identical, so I was still logged in to sites that I had been logged into under Windows.
The only problem I had was that while the session manager was loading my session (4 W; 42 T), Firefox was using 99% CPU and was completely unresponsive. It remained that way for about 6m:29s... which is really pretty bad. I remember it taking a while to load a session under Windows, yes, but I don't remember it ever taking that long (for a session of this size) -- and even if it did take that long, it was at least somewhat responsive (I could open up the windows, switch between tabs, and in general see the pages that had been loaded so far) while it was loading up. On Linux, however, the window wouldn't even finish drawing: only the title bar would draw; none of the menus, tabs, or page contents... until it was completely done loading the session.
[edit] Migrating Thunderbird
All I had to do was copy my Thunderbird profile from my Windows partition (specifically, from /media/sdb6/User Data/Programs/Thunderbird/Profiles/Tyler) to the respective location for profiles under Linux (/home/tyler/.mozilla-thunderbird/Tyler) and modify /home/tyler/.mozilla-thunderbird/profiles.ini to point to the new profile. Easy!
It worked perfectly. All my e-mail was there. And it downloaded my new messages, using my existing account settings.
