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brjoon1021 10-25-2018 10:25 PM
Manjaro installation won't boot. Just want to obtain firefox and chrome bookmarks. please help
 
Hi,

I have an installation of Manajaro which is based on Arch Linux installed. After a system upgrade it will no longer boot. I am not interested in spending more time trying to get it to boot. I have saved every other file that I need from that installation using a live USB distro.

I need help in getting my firefox bookmarks and my chrome bookmarks from the dead Manjaro installation in a way that I can add them my my browsers on another installation. Nope, unfortunately, I did not back them up with xmarks or another bookmars / favorites cloud service so I need to figure out how to find, save and install in another distro.

Do you know how ?

berndbausch 10-25-2018 11:24 PM
For Firefox, it depends on the release. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox.

syg00 10-26-2018 12:32 AM
Can you chroot into the system - if so open f/f chrome and export your bookmarks to a USB. Then simply import them.

brjoon1021 10-26-2018 01:21 AM
I have not chroot'd before. Is there a simple tutorial somewhere ?

hazel 10-26-2018 05:32 AM
It's easy enough. You just need a running Linux system with the same architecture. You need to be root in this system or to use sudo. Mount your Manjaro root partition on some suitable mountpoint.
Code:
sudo mount /dev/sda1 -t ext4 /mnt
It might not be sda1 of course. Use the correct partition and filesystem type for your system.

To actually chroot,
Code:
sudo chroot /mnt
That will make the root partition of the Manjaro system your new root partition. All the software you use from then onward is Manjaro software. Only the kernel still belongs to your host system.

When you are finished, just type "exit" to get back to the host.

teckk 10-26-2018 01:31 PM
I don't have firefox installed, I do have palemoon(comes from firefox)
And it has a directory:
Code:
~/.moonchild productions/pale moon/phfeurm5.default/bookmarkbackups/
So for firefox look somewhere like
Code:
~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/.....
~/.config/mozilla/firefox/.....
~/.local/share/mozilla/.....
I don't have chrome installed, I do have inox(chromium)
Look around:
Code:
~/.cache/chrome/Default/....
~/.config/google-chrome/Default/
~/.config/chrome/Default/
Quote:
After a system upgrade it will no longer boot.
Must be a reason. Have /boot mounted during update? What bootloader?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-boot
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI_Bootloaders
Search the forums for possible help.
http://www.archlinux.org/

ondoho 10-27-2018 03:37 AM
just copy the whole folder over.
mozilla browsers are very forgiving about version mismatches; the first time it will probably complain about version differences, and then it's all there, imported.
i think i once even moved a profile from a windows machine to a linux machine.


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