Everything gets restored including the subscriptions and Element Hiding Helper settings. Export your AdBlock settings, and import. Then go to Firefox | Addons | AdBlockPlus | Filter Preferences | Backup. If you have Element Hiding Helper installed with this, from this tiny button you get the usual “Select an element to hide”, and then things work as before. This button shows up in the left hand bottom corned of the screen, rather than being the usual icon in the top right. Then go into its Preferences and “Enable button”. It’s possible to run Element Hiding Helper but you need the Pale Moon version of AdBlockPlus, Adblock Latitude. XML file once the passwords have transferred.Įlement Hiding Helper. Installing Password Exporter for Firefox in Firefox and Password Backup Tool in Pale Moon enabled easy and quick transfer of passwords. I tried it anyway.įirstly, passwords transfer? I found that Password transfer is fairly easy. Which means that transferring would be a slog, involving hours of work rather than seconds. Restoring settings Firefox -> Pale Moon via FEBE backup now seems impossible, even for simple backups such as Passwords and Bookmarks. Circa 2014 there used to be a really simple official Profile Migration Tool which would port all your Firefox settings, cookies etc to Pale Moon, but it appears to have been abandoned and withdrawn. Though it already has adblockers and password managers built in, and support for things like Paper.Įventually I tried (and failed) to make a move to Pale Moon.Īuto migration? Nope. But it’s not yet at version 1.0, and as such it mostly lacks extension/add-on support while in the development phase. It’s definitely “the future of browsing” circa 2019, as well as the future of Patreon-like micro-payments, and I’m keeping it installed.
I like Brave a lot, and it installed fine on Windows 8 despite only officially supporting Windows 7.
I don’t want to switch to the Chrome browser itself. I like Opera, and it would be a lot more hassle to switch to it as a main browser because it only supports Chrome extensions. It seemed to be most seamless in terms of supporting the existing configuration of Firefox extensions. * Pale Moon, a Firefox fork with good support and development. Since none of these show any signs of updating (and, in the case of Element Hiding Helper, explicitly can’t update due to the new Firefox engine), I felt it was time to try to make a move to a new browser. Firefox version 55 was the last to support a number of vital “power searcher” addons such as Element Hiding Helper, Greasemonkey, Google HitHider and GoogleMonkeyR.
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