Recently, I was planning to format and reinstall my OS. So I thought of how to backup my browser (Firefox) settings and addons. Well luckily, I had downloaded the .xpi files earlier before installing the add-ons so no problems with add-ons. How cunning and intelligent of me. Next I backed-up my bookmarks using bookmark manager. Well thats the easy one and next I got stuck. What to do to backup all the installed search engines. I tried to get my hand dirty and I found a directory containing various plugins, extensions, add-ons, bookmark backups and search engines etc. The listing was
IT may be located in a different folder in your computer so be wary. I thought of copying the profile folder as a backup but then this looks a risky way and I thought this may be the only way when I discovered an excellent plug-in for firefox. The plugin is FEBE
The detail description for FEBE is
FEBE backs up your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences, passwords, cookies and just about everything else Firefox offers (it can even backup/restore your entire profile).
So yet another plugin solving my problem. Well thank you users and developer community of firefox for coming up with yet another excellent plugin.
Now FEBE is installed in Firefox and ready to backup my firefox customization.Technorati Tags: Firefox, Firefox addons, Backup firefox
C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[????????].defaultin my computer running on Microsoft Vista.
IT may be located in a different folder in your computer so be wary. I thought of copying the profile folder as a backup but then this looks a risky way and I thought this may be the only way when I discovered an excellent plug-in for firefox. The plugin is FEBE
The detail description for FEBE is
FEBE backs up your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences, passwords, cookies and just about everything else Firefox offers (it can even backup/restore your entire profile).
Features:
* Schedule automatic backups on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
* Save backups in time-stamped folders to easily identify when the backups were created. Specify how many folders you wish to keep and FEBE removes the oldest.
* Backup reminder. FEBE can alert you if a backup has not been completed in a specified number of days.
* Comprehensive results report with links to the author’s extension/theme homepages.
* User-defined backups. Make backups of virtually any file or folder - Firefox related or not. Just specify what to backup and FEBE does the rest.
* Extensive built-in help files. Just click the little blue information icons in FEBE options.
* FEBE 6.0 uses native Firefox zip/unzip components. Much, much faster than previous FEBE versions that depended on external, third-party utilities.
* Upload backups to your Box.net account automatically or with a single click. (FEBE 6.0)
* Verify your extension directory. Upgrading to Fx 3.0 sometimes leaves garbage in the extensions directory. FEBE can clean it up. (FEBE 6.0)
* Quick Backup. You can quickly backup as many or as few individual extensions/themes as you like. They can be saved together in a single, installable xpi file (Similar to CLEO). (FEBE 6.0)
* … and more!
Once installed, FEBE is available from the Firefox Tools menu. An icon can be placed on the toolbar via (right-click on toolbar) > Customize...
Important: FEBE 6.0 is for Firefox 3.0 and above only. For Firefox 2.0, use FEBE 5.0.
FEBE for Thunderbird (TEBE) beta is available at http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions/tebe/tebebeta.html
So yet another plugin solving my problem. Well thank you users and developer community of firefox for coming up with yet another excellent plugin.
Now FEBE is installed in Firefox and ready to backup my firefox customization.Technorati Tags: Firefox, Firefox addons, Backup firefox