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Easy Firefox profile backup

indi — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:07:04 +0000

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

Move firefox user profile to new computer

indi — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:31:11 +0000

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 to release their browser project

indi — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:29:21 +0000

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.

Keep your Firefox extensions after Windows install

indi — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:48:10 +0000

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.

FEBE ( Firefox Environment Backup Extension) allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up — It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Now you can easily synchronize your office and home browsers. And you can schedule your backups to run automatically too. Very handy.

Have read of it here

As far as what extensions you should be using with firefox, there are a lot of threads out there on the net so I won’t bother flogging my opinion on it – each one of us had their own personal needs, but as with most people, when I reinstall I will want all the extensions back again without wasting time looking, downloading and installing them again.

Web Browser macros

indi — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:47:18 +0000

How good is this?

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.