Tuesday, February 07, 2006

history.dat file in firefox

I copied the history.dat file from my previous Ubuntu installation (hoary) to a newly created virtual machine (Ubuntu Breezy) and it seems to work fine. I was not sure if this file is somehow encrpted with the default user id created by firefox (something like 3hsdj49348934j ;)

now that it works, it seems the file is just a format not human readable, but definitely an encrypted file, so you can go ahead and clean install your ubuntu with no loss in data or settings (that is if you backup everything)

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