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Backup your Firefox, Flock, or Thunderbird profiles with MozBackup 1.4.8

MozBackup 1.4.8

Last time we checked in on Firefox backup utility MozBackup, the developer had just added support for Firefox 3 beta. Apparently it's been a busy half year over at MozBackup HQ, because this week MozBackup 1.4.8 was released, with the following new features:

  • Create automatic backups via command line
  • New Installer
  • Supports backup of unknown files from user profiles
  • Backup profiles and settings for: Firefox 2/3, Flock, SeaMonkey, Netscape Navigator 9.0, Netscape Messenger 9.0, Thunderbird, Spicebird, Firefox Portable, and Thunderbird Portable

If you're just looking or a quick way to backup your Firefox extensions, bookmarks, and other settings, you can always check out the FEBE and CLEO Firefox add-ons. But MozBackup looks like a nice all-in-on tool if you have several Mozilla-based programs that you want to backup.

MozBackup is available for Windows 98 through Vista.

[via CyberNet]

Filed under: Security, Utilities, Windows, Freeware

Back up your Firefox settings with MozBackup

MozBackupA 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.

[via MakeUseOf]

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