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> And the Chrome assholes removed the password export (or at least I could not for the life of me get it to work at the time)

Chrome Settings > Passwords > "Export passwords..." (under the three-dots menu).

Not sure when you last checked but the option has been available since at least Chrome 66, which was released almost two years ago: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/04/18/google-chrome-66-password-...

I distinctly recall the option to manually import passwords being harder to find (solution is to either import them from another browser or enable a flag to import passwords from a CSV file).

Ironically Firefox currently still lacks the native ability to manually export passwords, relying on add-ons or third-party tools: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/technology/personaltech/f...

> It's hard to move browsers permanently if you're not prepared.

I find it rather easy, at least in my case. Passwords are all managed via a password manager, I barely use bookmarks, so most of the work is re-installing and configuring a few plugins, which I also don't use many of

Firefox has a built in import of browser data from other browsers such as Chrome. Does this no longer work?

It doesn't exist on Linux. When I moved from Chrome to Firefox, I used https://github.com/louisabraham/ffpass.