Everyone-
I did just that on my new computer: after installing FC2 and creating the user acount, I copied all of .mozilla from my old computer (which had FC1) before starting mozilla, and all my settings were there. One thing that will be important is that username and home directory are unchanged, since these appear in various places in mozilla's configuration files.
I have no idea why it worked for me and not for you, unfortunately.
could it have something to do with the fact that inside ~/.mozilla/profilename there exists a randomly generated folder name (ending always in .slt) which contains the important files?
e.g. i use the "default" profile. so, my bookmarks (bookmarks.html) and preferences (prefs.js) are stored in "/root/.mozilla/default/gccurl7j.slt". on a previous installation (before my hard disk failed) they were stored in a different randomly generated folder (i think it was "/root/.mozilla/default/sl8kut1k.slt") even though the mozilla version remained the same for both installs. not a big deal, i admit, but it does require a bit of care when backing up these two files. unfortunately, i do not know where the passwd's are stored so i'm only guessing that this could be the problem.
mark. :-)
p.s. i have no idea why mozilla was implemented this way but it's easy to work around.
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