Anyone know of the best way to backup an entire Firefox profile? I found this but I seem to remember someone posting here once about an extension or something that would do it all automagically.

Basically I'd like to (if possible) backup my cookies, bookmarks, saved form entries, and extensions (plus the settings for each extension).

all you're doing is copying a folder from one place to another, unless you plan on doing it on a regular basis would doing it manually really be that bad? If you do it often for some odd reason just make a batch file that automatically copies your profile dir to another location.

i use MozBackup. i dont think it saves extensions though. only history, bookmarks, passwords, certificates etc.

last edited by ravn0s at 23:44:09 19/Mar/06

SET profloc="C:\Documents and Settings\yournamehere\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox"

SET backuploc="C:\backup"



if  exist  %backuploc%  goto  exists

mkdir c:\backup

xcopy /E %profloc% %backuploc%

goto end

:exists

xcopy /E %profloc% %backuploc%

:end

I just made that s*** up right then, seems to backup the whole dir with my profile in it & stuff. maybe I'll try migrate it to my other pc later but have a play with it. Just remember to set up the variables before you go using it to point it to where your profile dir is, and where your backup location is.

last edited by whoop at 23:53:10 19/Mar/06

Yeh I have no probs backing up profiles manually; in fact I'd rather do it that way so then I can add it in to my regular backup stuff. I guess my question is more does just copying the profile copy everything? Cuz I seem to remember doing that in the past and then trying to restore it and running into problems (this was ages ago though, maybe its all fixed now or I was a mong).

Everything profile (cookies, password etc) can be backed up copying the profile folders.

Plugins are stored in the firefox folder\plugins, as are search plugins. There may be a few property files left in the browser folder, but for the most part they can be ignored. There is also a few browser specific properties in firefox folder\greprefs, but you'll only need to backup these if you've edited them manually or changed an option manually in about:config, any extensions that change these (ie, fasterfox) should re-add the options when you restore the profile.

maybe the last time you did it, you backed up a mozilla 1.0X version, and restored the backup to mozilla 1.5? I know when I tried that a whole bunch of crap broke.

Ah whoop, kicking it old skool :)