Anyone have a workaround to import Firefox info into Edge Chromium?  

According to Microsoft, this has been something they've been working on for at least 5 months with no end in sight. I guess capturing Firefox users isn't important.

Anyway, in Edge Beta and now the official version, if you try to import from Firefox, you get an erroneous message saying to close all Firefox windows and try again, even when Firefox has never run since boot and there are no Firefox or Mozilla processes running.

Hopefully, now with the official version out, someone has figured out how to either manually move Firefox, data into Edge or prevent the bug in Edge from thinking Firefox is running when it isn't.

I also see official Edge did NOT automatically import from Edge Beta and does not have an option to import from Edge Beta, I guess Beta users are in the same boat as Firefox users.

So typical of the current Microsoft.

Quote from Hoosier Daddy above.
"I also see official Edge did NOT automatically import from Edge Beta and does not have an option to import from Edge Beta, I guess Beta users are in the same boat as Firefox users."

For Edge Beta select Favorites-Manage Favorites and at bottom select Export Favorites and it will save them as a HTML file.
Then on Edge under Profile select Import Browser Data and select the HTML file you saved.

Jim

Installed, no problem importing Firefox passwords and links history etc, took all of a couple of seconds. Scrolling is jerky and slow compared to Firefox and the Edge Beta, hmm, probably a setting somewhere I've missed although it seemed to have taken most from my beta settings which were basically most things off! Won't actually be using Edge much, if at all anyway as I prefer Firefox anyway, just keeping as an alternative / spare ;o)

Saving Firefox bookmarks to a .html file and then importing from that into Edge works like a charm. Edge puts them under "Other favorites."

I think its a waste of time hoping Microsoft will fix this at all. Further research shows the exact same issue importing Firefox data into Google Chrome. It's pretty obvious the process right down to the identical bogus error message about closing Firefox is identical in Edge and Chrome. So, the problem is almost certainly in the open source Chromium base that both Chrome and Edge are built on.

Berton said:

For a "work around" I use Firefox's Bookmarks, Show All Bookmarks and the Import and Backup tab to get to Export as HTML.

Any ideas for the browsing history?