Preserve your Firefox settings with BackupFox

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Preserve your Firefox settings with BackupFox - Today's Browser Tip

by Jordan Running Aug 24th 2005

Despite its many advancements, upgrading to a new or, heaven forbid, experimental version of Firefox can be a precarious task. Backing up before an upgrade is essential, but it's hard to know which files to back up. Enter BackupFox, which does exactly what you'd expect. You choose which profile you want to back up, and it grabs all of your settings, bookmarks, extensions, and history, and packs them into a pocket-sized .zip file. If you lose your data due to an upgrade gone awry or some other Alarming Event, just open the backup file in BackupFox and you'll be right back where you left off. As a bonus, it also has Thunderbird support. The only catch is it's Windows-only.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

ProphetSix said 8:38PM on 8-24-2005

Another site picked-up on this. Linky to hte D/L in that thread:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=291258

Seoman said 9:29PM on 8-24-2005

I've been using MozBackup for quite some time, and I've never had any problems with it, so I'm not sure what makes this one any better. MozBackup supports Thunderbird too, definitely a plus for me.

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

bob23 said 9:58PM on 8-24-2005

thank you! I'm getting a brand new PC and want to keep my huge list of bookmarks!

dan Nolan said 2:19AM on 8-25-2005

This is a bit of an offtopic question, but I've seen that skin for XP, the shiny non-luna one, I've just always wondered what it is and how to get it!

It's been wracking my mind, recently.

billpoly said 10:22AM on 8-25-2005

Anybody know if this will allow you to move a complete set of settings (settings, extensions, bookmarks, etc.) to another installation of Firefox? I have one installation that I've customized extensively and I'd like to get a new installation on a different PC to the same state.

bobitybobbybob said 8:09AM on 8-26-2005

To #1, are you talking about windows royale?

Sridhar said 1:45AM on 9-02-2005

To #1: Google for 'xpize' and install it.

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