John wrote:
> I had a computer crash, and moved the old hard drive to a new
> computer. I installed Firefox on the new hard drive, but want to
> import all the settings and extensions from the old drive to the new
> one. I copied the files from the old to the new, and have all my
> bookmarks, but none of the extensions work, nor can I install them
> again. All downloaded files fail to install directing me to the error
> console, Checking there doesn't help me much. Here's the latest
> message:
>
> "Warning: Error in parsing value for property 'display'. Declaration
> dropped.
> Source File: https://addons.mozilla.org/css/rustico.css
> Line: 1078"
>
> Obviously, I didn't copy the files correctly or forgot something. The
> import process on Firefox only offered to import from IE, not another
> instance of Firefox.
>
> Any suggestions on how to move all my settings from the old drive to
> my new one? Also, I was running XP on the old drive, now I'm running
> Vista. Is that a problem?
>
> Thanks for any help!

You need to allow Firefox to make a new profile and then dump the
contents of the old profile into the new one. Firefox expects to see
the name of a profile it has set up for itself.

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:22:14 -0700, EE wrote:

>John wrote:
>> I had a computer crash, and moved the old hard drive to a new
>> computer. I installed Firefox on the new hard drive, but want to
>> import all the settings and extensions from the old drive to the new
>> one. I copied the files from the old to the new, and have all my
>> bookmarks, but none of the extensions work, nor can I install them
>> again. All downloaded files fail to install directing me to the error
>> console, Checking there doesn't help me much. Here's the latest
>> message:
>>
>> "Warning: Error in parsing value for property 'display'. Declaration
>> dropped.
>> Source File: https://addons.mozilla.org/css/rustico.css
>> Line: 1078"
>>
>> Obviously, I didn't copy the files correctly or forgot something. The
>> import process on Firefox only offered to import from IE, not another
>> instance of Firefox.
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to move all my settings from the old drive to
>> my new one? Also, I was running XP on the old drive, now I'm running
>> Vista. Is that a problem?
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>
>You need to allow Firefox to make a new profile and then dump the
>contents of the old profile into the new one. Firefox expects to see
>the name of a profile it has set up for itself.

Thank you for the reply, but I'm still as lost as before.

I created a new profile, and copied the files from the old to the new.
I changed the profile.ini to reflect the new profile name. Still the
page comes up as a new user, no settings carried over, no bookmarks,
and none of the extensions. I'm not new at this type of stuff, but why
am I having such a problem with it? I'm still getting used to Vista's
file management system, but this is driving me crazy!

Thanks for any further instructions.