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When you install any browser (Firefox recommend) it ask you if you want to transfer browser data. It will guide you through (its pretty much automatic)
just adding that granted FF already has a decent password manager there are also reliable, free and open source and audited independent password manager like as
which both can plug in any browser through their respective extension.
Being both an independent option from the browser they help the user not making him vendor locked to his browser through his saved data.
Plot twist: Bitwarden on desktop is Chromium browser based.
Still can be used in FF as plugin.
Pretty much every web-app wrapped into a desktop environment uses Electron, which is based in Chromium.
Avoid webapps ported to desktop, noted.
Unless you can run them over Firefox, using this for example