Back up your Firefox

Back up your Firefox settings with MozBackup

A few months go, one of our computers had a major crash and we wound up
having to reinstall a number of programs, including Firefox. Being the
cautious types we are here at Download Squad, we had made sure to
backup our bookmarks as an HTML file, so we figured restoring our
settings should be a snap.

But there’s also all those toolbars,
add-ons, cookies, and saved forms that you never think about. All told,
it took a few hours to fully restore Firefox the way we liked it.

It turns out we could have saved a lot of time by using MozBackup.
This little lifesaving utility creates a complete backup of your
Firefox settings. It’s not published by Mozilla, so there might be a
few quirks. For example, when you go to backup your extensions, a
warning pops up telling you that not every extension is supported.

So
we wouldn’t recommend recklessly deleting your profile after using
MozBackup to see how well the restore process works. But in a pinch,
it’s better than just backing up your bookmarks.

MozBackup 1.4.7 Beta was released last week, and adds support for Firefox 3.0 Alpha versions.