Firefox 11 Aurora to Include Chrome Migration

With the web browser market share tilting more and more towards Google Chrome, the Firefox development team schemed up a way to at least allow the Chromers to switch to Mozilla’s product as easily as possible, if so they wish.

As such, they are already working on making it possible to migrate settings and data from Chrome, as it is available in the case of Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari. The development is half way to completion and should be ready in Firefox 11 Aurora when it launches officially, around December 20.

Up to this point, the progress covers migration of cookies, history and bookmarks, with passwords, form data and settings being all that is left to wrap the feature up; but other elements are also taken into consideration, such as search services, keywords, page zoom levels, geolocation permissions, storage permissions or proxies.

There will be no redesign of the current Import Wizard.