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I just got a new computer and had to figure out how to bring over all of my Firefox bookmarks and saved passwords over to it from my old computer.

For reference, my old and new computers are both running Windows XP, and my old computer is running Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3.

In order to bring over all of my personal settings to my new computer I performed the following actions:

1. First install Firefox on the new computer.
2. On your old computer, navigate to the directory containing all of your personal settings. We want to copy this directory from your old computer to your new one.

   This folder is located in your Documents and Settings folder for the user that you are logged into your computer as. On my computer this folder is named:

   C:\Documents and Settings\tarcher\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\nkf6289t.default
   

   So, I grabbed the folder named nkf6289t.default and all files and directories within it, and copied it to a temporary directory on my new computer. Make sure you have FireFox closed on your computer before you start the copy.

3. On my new computer the profile is stored in the directory named:
   

   C:\Documents and Settings\tarcher\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\o75144ji.default
   

   This is what Firefox created for me as when I installed it.

   On my new computer, I simply moved the existing directory C:\Documents and Settings\tarcher\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\o75144ji.default out of the Profiles directory, and moved the directory in that I copied from my old computer.

4. Make sure you rename the directory you are copying in the same as what it was named on your new computer. So, everything I copied over went into the folder named C:\Documents and Settings\tarcher\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\o75144ji.default
5. Startup Firefox on your new computer. All of your bookmarks and saved passwords should be back in place and functioning.