Move Mull data to Firefox or other derivatives

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For those interested in changing from Mull (now discontinued) to Firefox or any of its derivatives (Fennec, IronFox…) there is this very handy tutorial to do so:

Just note that at the step to restore the backup in the new browser, you should set the correct app id.

Instead of:

adb push firefox-android-backup.tar.gz /sdcard/Android/data/org.mozilla.firefox/

for Fennec you would have to use:

adb push firefox-android-backup.tar.gz /sdcard/Android/data/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
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Thank you for this!

Could Fennec and IronFox change the allowBackups="false" to “true”?

@celenity @relan

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Or maybe allow if encrypted?

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Filed an issue: Allow backups (#107) · Issues · relan / fennecbuild · GitLab

The browser keeps a lot of sensitive information, so blindly backing it all up might be risky. On the other hand, completely opting out if this (very useful) feature isn’t very user friendly.

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What exactly is done by this?

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It would permit the built-in backup and restore feature of Android to work on these browsers.

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