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[Keeper]

The other day while doing some internet searching, Firefox crashed on me. When I re-started it I found that most of my profile was missing. Favorites, saved cookies, passwords. Well I sat there and got a little bent out of shape wondering what happened, did a bit of searching in another browser to find answers, nothing. I even looked in the browsers file, profile was missing.....
After an hour or so I remembered I read an artical about backing up browsers and I had made a back up of Firefox, so I followed the instruction on re-installing the back up, It's fixed and working like a champ.
So I decided to pass along the URL on How & What to do it in case you have the same issues....

http://support.mozil...r%20information

[peterc]

thanks keeper

[Larry(ne)]

Here's a real good one I use for both 86 & 64 bit
Firefox Backup Tool

If you often update and adjust your Firefox web browser, this Firefox Backup Tool can help you, it can be easily backup all important configuration of your Firefox, including user preferences, bookmarks, extensions, browsing history, etc., you can back up all of these to one file, then restore it when you need, you can also add password protection for backup files. This is a freeware, you can download it here, it currently only supports Windows platforms (both x86 and x64 versions).

[Keeper]

This is even better, Thank you Larry.....

[Flatiron]

I can back up my Profile in 2 seconds and restore a Profile in a minute with FEBE Firefox Extension.

Have used FEBE over a year now.

User Info for Chuck_Baker :: Add-ons for Firefox

[Keeper]

Another good one, learning something new everyday.....Thank you Flatiron.....

[Berton]

FEBE doesn't work with Firefox 9.

[Keeper]

Worked on my Waterfox 9 ( Firefox 9 for X 64 ) with no problems.

[Berton]

This is what I get on Win7 Ultimate 64-bit and Mac OS X Snow Leopard 64-bit:

[Flatiron]

Berton, on 31 December 2011 - 11:54 PM, said:

FEBE doesn't work with Firefox 9.

I also have Add-on Compatibility Reporter.
No special settings, just install.

May be why FEBE works on v9 for me.

[Berton]

This is what I get on Win7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard:

[Berton]

Berton, on 01 January 2012 - 01:01 AM, said:

This is what I get on Win7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard:

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Since FEBE won't install I'd think the Add-on won't work in that instance.

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Help Mozilla make sure your favorite add-ons get updated for upcoming Firefox releases by using this extension
to report whether they still work or are having some issues with alpha and beta releases.
Note: Recommended for alpha and beta users only!

[Keeper]

FEBE v 7.0.2 was released 12/30/11 and works on my Waterfox browser. I read an artical about using Waterfox instead of Firefox on X 64 systems. They are basically the same browser developed by Mozilla except Waterfox was made for and runs faster on X64 systems where Firefox is 32 bit running on a 64 bit system, also you have to use only the add-ons for Waterfox as most Firefox add-ons are not compatible as of yet.
Waterfox for 64-bit can be found at http://waterfoxproj.....net/downloads/

[Berton]

Guess I'm out of luck on Waterfox, won't run on my Mac Snow Leopard, doesn't have this:

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You MUST have Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64) installed!

[jram]

On my Mac all I do is go to the FF profile folder, right click copy.. you can put it anywhere you like, even drag it to a thumb drive

[Berton]

Yeah, that's what I've been doing but I thought the add-in would be nicer.