Moving a users documents etc. from an old PC to a new one is quite simple
But how do you get about easily migrating browser favorites and credentials from mainly
Edge, Chromium Edge, Chrome and Firefox? (we've ditched IE completely by now)
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If its just browsers most have an option to sync so it all appears on its own you can set windows to sync settings as well
and by syncing you have to sign in to browser with an address and password. Really quite easy. Once signed in check the sync settings within the browser.
For Firefox it's simply a matter of copying the Firefox profile. I routinely copy my Firefox profile to a new machine after a clean install.
Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles | Firefox Help
Two of the others benefits of signing in to a browser, it acts as a backup, in case of drive failure and it allows you to see the same information on Tablets and Phones.
As Bree states, for Firefox you can simply copy over the profile.
However this goes for Chrome as well but to get credentials along with Edge/Edge Chromium you need to manually get them out of the credential manager. And then things start building up
We've used USMT for User Profile Migrations for years. We run USMT with USMTGUI.
It is basically a GUI utilizing USMT. It is however professional SW so you must pay for it.
But as it is quite cheap and includes premium support it really is an easy choice.
USMTGUI is updated to the latest Win 10 edition and has, since autumn 2019, been capable of migrating favorites etc. for the new Edge Chromium. Also the latest corporate versions from Autumn 2019 onward migrates profiles to Azure
Regarding Favorites from Edge, Chromium Edge, Chrome and Firefox, and Chrome and Firefox credentials, they are easily migrated with USMT.
The reason you cannot migrate Edge and Chromium Edge credentials directly, is that those credentials are stored in the "Credential Manager" and they're not supposed to be able to be copied. - If they were, the credential manager wouldn't be worth much ;-)
To migrate Credentials stored in the "Credential Manager" you basically need to export them, for instance to desktop, logged in as the user. Then move them over with USMT, along with the users data and, import the credentials after logging in as the user..
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