Firefox: How can I take all my settings to a new Mac from Windows?

hey guys, i'm really considering getting a new Mac Mini. however, what's holding me back is Firefox. firefox is by far the application i use the most. i want to be able to take my current bookmarks, passwords and settings from this Firefox, which is on Windows 7 and move it over to the new Mac. is this possible?
whenever i've needed to re-install Firefox on a new Windows machine i've always just installed firefox and then copied over my Firefox profile which is located here: C:\Users\***\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles and this brings over all of my settings, bookmarks, passwords so it's like i'm using the same install from where i left off.
i thought maybe i could just export the settings from Firefox on Windows to Safari and then bring the safari settings over to the new Mac. i've never used Safari before and i don't mind learning a new browser, but i really want to be able to bring over all of my old Firefox settings like passwords and bookmarks.
how can this be done?
thanks

ThunderCon wrote:
ok, thanks a lot. seems like i'll be fine as long as i remember to change the profile name. i'm guessing it's not necessary to change the profile name back when i go back to Windows?
so just change the profile name to the Mac default name and copy it from the USB. what about when i take the profile back to Windows?
There is a file in both Windows and the Mac stored outside the profile directory which records the name of the default directory established when Firefox and/or Thunderbird are installed, and, probably any other profiles which are set up if there's more than one user so you can choose which profile to look at when the program is started (I haven't used it that way in so long that I'm just assuming multiple profiles will work that way).
The point is that when either program is started up, it looks to see what the name of the profile folder should be, and if it's not there (because you didn't switch the profile name when you moved it between machines), it'll just set up a new empty one with the already issued default name. Since it'll do that no matter which direction the transfer is going, the default profile name of the receiving machine has to be respected and used.
BTW, if you copy the (visible) files in the Windows Thunderbird profile directory and move them over to the default directory on the Mac, the copied files will be recognized, but a new mail sub-directory will be set up that's empty because the profile needs such a directory and, being hidden on the PC, the real one was never moved with the rest of the files.

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