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How can I make moving from Chrome to Firefox as simple as possible?

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I want to start moving away from using Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers, and instead move to Firefox. Firefox is an open-source web browser run by a non-profit, as well as the only major competitor to Chrome, and I'm interested in supporting that by actually using it.

However, all of my history, bookmarks, open tabs, saved passwords, extensions, userscripts, etc., are all stored in Chrome. I don't particularly want to have to start all over with teaching a new browser what sites I want to show up when I type a single letter in the URL bar, for instance.

What can I do to make my move from Chrome to Firefox easier? How can I transfer as much data as possible over to Firefox?

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Firefox's FOSS and non-profit nature is questionable (1 comment)
Importing bookmarks and other data from Google Chrome into Firefox (1 comment)
Firefox's FOSS and non-profit nature is questionable
mickeydickey‭ wrote 6 months ago
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It was a true FOSS project originally, some time after peeling off from Netscape. But it has some track record of funding by advertisers, questionable design choices in the last decade, and generally - giving up some of it's technological(and ideological) identity for the sake of more compatibility with Chrome. I liked it much better some time around 2004-2016. Used its long-standing fork, Palemoon, for a while. But that's too obsolete by now. Maintained, but lacks a variety of features which make it unfit for much of the daily browsing. I don't know of good alternatives, alas. I am using Waterfox - a tidier up-to-date more privacy-conscious fork of Firefox. Commenting as this is not an answer, but just some thoughts on FF derivatives worth considering.