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Want a nice easy way to backup your firefox profile? I discovered one that is much easier to do than the manual method I posted on this webiste a few months ago. It’s call Mozbackup, and is a great piece of open source software.

To perform a backup, it’s real easy:

Run the program, and a window like this will come up:

Choose either to backup or restore. The next screen will ask you which profile you want to backup, and also where you want to save it:

After this, you will be asked whether you would like to set a password for the backup file. Choose your selection, and the following screen will allow you to select what items from your profile you wish to backup. I would say leave the defaults:

Easy as that! Done …….

Oh yeah …….. get it from here

I had some issues with my work laptop the other day and all my settings for my applications had been lost. Damn I thought, I’ve lost all my bookmarks and firefox settings. However I had backed up my profile a few days before but wasn’t sure how to move it to my new computer seamlessly.

After a bit of googling and trial & error, I found the following way to work the best:

1. Exit Firefox
2. Start -> Run -> type ‘%APPDATA%’
3. Select Mozilla -> Firefox -> Profiles
4. Copy profile folder (XXXXXXX.default) and paste it to desired location (eg. C:\Firefox\Profiles)
5. Start -> Run -> type ‘firefox.exe -ProfileManager’
6. Click ‘Create Profile’
7. Click ‘Choose Folder’
8. Select the newly copied folder (eg. C:\Firefox\Profiles\XXXXXXX.default)
9. Now select the newly created profile and click ‘Start Firefox’ — check that all your cookies etc are there
10. Surf the net!

Google, in competition with Internet Explorer and Firefox, is set to release their own browser tomorrow – named Chrome.

The good news is that the beta release of the browser will be open source. It promises to be complete, yet simple.

Google have have released a comic book telling you about the new browser. In typical Google fashin, it is innovative and works quite well. Better than just a simple web page full of text.

One thing I have found intersting is what I’ve read about the tabbed browsing. I have found with other browsers that when you close a tab, the moemory that it uses is not reclaimed fully and there is a it of fragmentation (or bloating of memory). Chrome claims to fix this …. according to the comic book.

Let’s see how it gos.

Here’s a easy way to keep your firefox extensions backed up. You know all those cool ones you’ve found or discovered by accident and you’d probably have trouble getting them all again after you reinstall Windows?

It’s called FEBE.

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Record and replay your web activities with iMacros , a free extension for Firefox.

This powerful tool has countless applications. You can use it to fill in forms that stretch across multiple pages, to automatically log into a site and perform specific activities, or even to extract data from a site and save it as a CSV file. It’s particularly useful for web developers looking to test the performance and functionality of their sites. Macros can be edited, controlled with JavaScript and combined with other extensions such as Greasemonkey.