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by ComodoHacker 2297 days ago
>Quantum was good for six months, now we're back to the same situation where almost everyone outside the tech bubble is using Chrome.

Did Quantum became worse or you're basically saying Mozilla is bad at marketing (and having huge vertically integrated ecosystem)?
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testuser66 2297 days ago
It's hard to move browsers permanently if you're not prepared. I moved to FF Quantom for a bit, but had to regularly open Chrome to get passwords etc. And the Chrome assholes removed the password export (or at least I could not for the life of me get it to work at the time)

I ended up going back for a bit and added a password manager, and now I can move between browsers easily - but as I said, it's not always straightforward, especially for _most_ non-tech users.

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vatueil 2297 days ago
> And the Chrome assholes removed the password export (or at least I could not for the life of me get it to work at the time)

Chrome Settings > Passwords > "Export passwords..." (under the three-dots menu).

Not sure when you last checked but the option has been available since at least Chrome 66, which was released almost two years ago: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/04/18/google-chrome-66-password-...

I distinctly recall the option to manually import passwords being harder to find (solution is to either import them from another browser or enable a flag to import passwords from a CSV file).

Ironically Firefox currently still lacks the native ability to manually export passwords, relying on add-ons or third-party tools: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/technology/personaltech/f...

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hutattedonmyarm 2297 days ago
> It's hard to move browsers permanently if you're not prepared.

I find it rather easy, at least in my case. Passwords are all managed via a password manager, I barely use bookmarks, so most of the work is re-installing and configuring a few plugins, which I also don't use many of

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ripdog 2297 days ago
Firefox has a built in import of browser data from other browsers such as Chrome. Does this no longer work?
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lorenzhs 2297 days ago
It doesn't exist on Linux. When I moved from Chrome to Firefox, I used https://github.com/louisabraham/ffpass.
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