firefox extension that saves everything

unwashed potato! · 9 Nov 2007 at 22:57

i use ff on many machines and it gets annoying when ifind a new extension, bookmark etc that on each machine i have to find it if i remember and download it. Wondering is there an extension that bascially saves every setting the firefox im using has? i mean everything if possible, as in bookmarks, extensions, passwords and usernames saved for websites, accounts in fireftp, theme, all of it?

tolien · 9 Nov 2007 at 23:17

Windows Explorer and the Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V shortcuts?

Mozbackup will probably catch most stuff, but it isn't perfect.

WolfR1der · 10 Nov 2007 at 11:46

FEBE might well be what you're looking for. You can define extra files/folders to be backed up as well.

bledd · 10 Nov 2007 at 12:12

make a copy of the folder in %appdata% mozzilla/firefox folder

marc2003 · 10 Nov 2007 at 13:16

why use an extension? just copy the whole mozilla folder as mentioned above.

start, run

%appdata%

and you're there.

tolien · 10 Nov 2007 at 13:23

Taking the whole Mozilla folder would copy other Mozilla apps' profiles as well, such as Sunbird (but not Thunderbird), which might not be desirable. The Firefox folder within that would be a slightly better choice.

marc2003 · 10 Nov 2007 at 13:30

i don't use any other mozilla apps but fair point.

unwashed potato! · 10 Nov 2007 at 13:40

thanks guys then the reply, will try it when next home

MarcLister · 10 Nov 2007 at 15:08

You could write a batch file that copies the Firefox folder to another disk/drive/folder and just run it when you want to back it up.

You could then just zip the folder up from where it is copied to or even make the batch file run 7-Zip and make the archive for you.

pointy shadow · 10 Nov 2007 at 17:08

MarcLister said:
You could write a batch file that copies the Firefox folder to another disk/drive/folder and just run it when you want to back it up.

You could then just zip the folder up from where it is copied to or even make the batch file run 7-Zip and make the archive for you.

Could you be so kind and knock up a batch file to do this please?

MarcLister · 10 Nov 2007 at 22:52

pointy shadow said:
Could you be so kind and knock up a batch file to do this please?

You cheeky sod!

I will give it a go, just for you.

bledd · 10 Nov 2007 at 23:31

pointy shadow said:
Could you be so kind and knock up a batch file to do this please?

enter Control Panel, then Regional Options, modify how the date is shown, change it to "yyyy-MM-dd"

and download 7zip commandline version, put 7za.exe into the X:\Windows\System32 folder, then use this batch file..

7za a "%appdata%\Mozilla\Backup %date%.7z" %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\* -mx9

you can change this.. "%appdata%\Mozilla\Backup %date%.7z" to whatever folder you want.. say "D:\backups\firefox %date%.7z"

only run it once a day, as it'll overwrite the ones with the same date..

use windows scheduled tasks for it

MarcLister · 11 Nov 2007 at 12:07

Nice work bledd.

What does the -mx9 mean?

Hate · 11 Nov 2007 at 12:12

maximum compression, level 9

MarcLister · 11 Nov 2007 at 14:12

Thanks Hate. I knew that of course. Was just testing.

Edit - Oh and thanks bledd.