Mozilla Firefox backup and restore from backup. MozBackup: Mozilla Firefox profile backup
The free program Mozbackup (Mozilla Backup) allows you to save and restore your browser profile Mozilla Firefox. Using the Mozbackup program, you can create and restore profiles of the following programs: Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Netscape, MozSuite/SeaMonkey, Flock, Sunbird, Spicebird, PostBox and Wyzo.
In Mozbackup you can create a backup copy of your profile Firefox browser and then, when necessary, restore Firefox profile from a backup.
What is a browser profile and why should you save it from time to time? backups browser profile?
In profile Mozilla browser Firefox saves all your browser settings: passwords, bookmarks, contacts, installed extensions, browsing history, cookies, browser cache, etc.
As you know, nothing lasts forever in our world, and therefore, just in case, you should take precautions to avoid an unpleasant surprise. May happen by various reasons, sudden equipment failures and software. For example, out of order HDD, there has been a serious problem with the operating system, and it needs to be reinstalled urgently and suddenly.
After reinstallation operating system, or her new installation Usually one or more browsers are installed on your computer, unless, of course, you use only one browser - Internet Explorer, which comes pre-installed with the Windows operating system.
The newly installed Mozilla Firefox browser will have default settings and will not contain any add-ons (extensions), it will not contain your passwords, bookmarks and other settings. Therefore, it is necessary to create backup copies of your browser profile from time to time, so that later you can easily return your settings for the Mozilla Firefox browser.
How can you save bookmarks and all other settings of your browser when reinstalling the operating system or reinstalling the browser?
On the pages of my website, I have already repeatedly described various ways to save the Mozilla Firefox browser profile. There is probably no other browser with so many in various ways to save backup settings.
Now it's time to talk about another way to save a profile backup: using the free Mozilla Backup program. This program has a Russian version, and therefore, you will not have any difficulties using it.
You will learn how to save Firefox settings, as well as how to transfer Firefox settings to a newly installed browser after installing or reinstalling the operating system, or how to transfer a Firefox profile to another computer.
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From the official Russian-language website of the program you can download the program installer or an archive with a portable version of the program.
You will need to install the program or run the portable version of the Mozilla Backup program from the folder.
Now let's move on to the review of the Mozbackup program and learn how to use this program.
How to save Firefox settings in Mozbackup
After installing the Mozbackup program on your computer, you should run it. A program welcome window opens, in which you need to click on the “Next” button.
In the next “Operation Type” window, you must select the action you want to perform - “Save” or “Restore”. The program selects the Mozilla Firefox browser installed on the computer with the build number of the browser version.
To save your browser settings, you need to activate the “Save” radio button, and then click on the “Next” button.
In the Select Profile window, select the profile you want to save. You will then need to select a location to save your profile backup.
To do this, click on the “Browse” button, and then in the Explorer window select a location to save a backup copy of the Mozilla Firefox browser profile. You can create a folder in advance to store backup copies of your browser profile.
It would be better to create such a folder not on the system drive, but on another drive. Because in case of a sudden reinstallation of the operating system, the backup saved on the system disk will be lost along with all other data.
After choosing the location to save the “backup copy”, you need to click on the “Next” button.
In the “Question” window, it is better to click on the “No” button. If you protect the “backup file” with a password, then if you forget the password, then you will no longer be able to restore your browser profile.
In the “Select Components” window, click on the “Next” button.
In the next “Work in Progress” window, a backup copy of the Firefox browser is created.
The “Report” window opens, in which the program informs that the “backup file” has been created and shows the contents of the backup copy. After creating a backup copy of your profile, you need to click on the “Exit” button.
You can now open the folder and verify that your Mozilla Firefox browser profile has been backed up. On my computer, on the “D:” drive, I created a “Firefox Backup” folder, into which I saved a backup copy of the browser profile.
The name of the backup file indicates the browser version and the date the backup was created. The file has the extension ".pcv", and can be opened using an archiver program, for example, WinRAR or 7-Zip.
For greater reliability, you can copy this backup file on a flash drive, or on portable hard disk, and also save a copy of the file in some cloud storage: Yandex.Disk, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc.
How to restore Firefox settings in Mozbackup
If you restore your Firefox profile after reinstalling or reinstalling the operating system, you will need to reinstall the Mozilla Firefox browser on your computer. After installation, the browser will not contain your settings and will have default settings.
Attention! Mozbackup will only restore the version of the browser that was backed up. If at the time of restoration there is a newer version of the browser, then you should install exactly the version of the browser with which the profile backup was made.
After restoring the profile, the browser itself will automatically update to the new version.
Where to find old version browser?
Find the required version browser can be found on the official website mozilla-russia.org. From the main page of the site you can download the most new version browser.
In order to download the old one to your computer Mozilla version Firefox, on home page of this site you need to click on the “Products” button, then in the next window under the description latest version browser, you need to click on the “Other versions...” link.
In the next window in right column you need to find the “Version history” item and click on the link “All versions and Russifications of Firefox”. In a new window, select the desired browser version and download it to your computer. You can see this process visually in the video below this article.
After installing the browser on your computer, you will need to install Mozilla program Backup, if the operating system was reinstalled.
To restore your browser profile, run the Mozbackup program. In the Operation Type window, you must select the action - “Restore”, select the application, and click on the “Next” button.
In the “Select Profile” window, select the profile you want to restore. Then you need to select a file to restore your browser profile. To do this, click on the “Browse” button and find the saved “backup file”.
If you did not reinstall the operating system, then the program itself finds the path to the saved backup copy of the browser profile. After that, click on the “Next” button.
The Mozilla Firefox browser profile is being restored. After restoring your profile, you can launch the browser.
After opening the main window of your browser, you will see that the browser is already working with all your settings. You will have all your add-ons (extensions), passwords, bookmarks and all other settings of your browser restored.
In this way you can transfer your Firefox profile to new computer, if you have several of them and want to use the Mozilla Firefox browser with your own settings on another computer.
In the video below this article, I create a backup copy of the Mozilla Firefox browser profile, then delete the browser from my computer, and then restore the browser profile from the backup with all my settings.
Conclusions of the article
Using Mozbackup will allow you to save and restore the Mozilla Firefox browser profile on your computer.
For Firefox backup (backup)– this is the ability to save the current set of bookmarks, settings, downloaded pages, etc., in order to restore them later. Handy Backup uses for backup Firefox standard“Computer” plugin.
Benefits of backing up Firefox with Handy Backup
Scheduling and automation of tasks
As a backup tool, Firefox Handy Backup allows you to fully automate the backup process. You can configure the Firefox backup task to certain time(with the possibility of periodic, from minutes to months, repetition), or for a system event.
Compared to earlier backup utilities copy Firefox For example, with Mozbackup, Handy Backup provides a wide range of backup creation and recovery methods, such as full, incremental, differential and mixed Mozilla backups, encryption, etc.
Storage options
Having created a backup for Mozilla Firefox, you can save it either on local or USB disk, and online (on a NAS device, on an FTP/SFTP/FTPS server, in cloud storage, for example, creating a backup copy on Yandex Disk, Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive etc.
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How to Backup Firefox Using Handy Backup
For Firefox, a backup copy of all settings and options is removed from local folder. Handy Backup uses the standard “Computer” plugin, available in all solutions, to obtain a Mozilla Firefox backup.
- Launch Handy Backup and create new task using a button or menu.
- Select backup task in Step 1 and go to Step 2.
- Select plugin" Computer" from the "Local or Network Drives" group in the left pane.
On a note: You can also use the "Network" plugin, or select a machine from the drop-down list on the left top corner windows (only for network solutions) to back up Firefox over the network.
- Double click on the plugin name, or click the “>>” button.
- In the window that appears, find and tick the Firefox settings folder.
Advice: under Linux look for this folder at ~/.firefox.
- Click OK to return to Step 2 and continue creating the task as described in the User Guide. All other steps do not have any special features. Give the task a memorable name - for example, “Mozilla Firefox backup”.
Comparison of Handy Backup with other Firefox Backup programs and utilities
The outdated Mozbackup utility does not have scheduled backup settings; The same problem is typical for various Firefox backup plugins. In addition, there are practically no solutions that offer Firefox backup to network media out of the box, encryption of backup copies, etc.!
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MozBackup is a utility that allows you to create backup copies of profiles of programs from Mozilla: Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, etc. Of course, she can also restore these profiles.
All you need to do is download MozBackup for free, and you can save your bookmarks, passwords, address book, mail and even cache, history, extensions, etc. The program is indispensable if you need to transfer all this personal data to new system or to another computer. Of course, it’s never superfluous to always have a backup copy of information.
MozBackup is extremely easy to use and allows the user to choose which data should be copied and which not. With MozBackup you no longer have to worry about the safety of your important data. For example, using the utility on a work computer will minimize losses in the event of a system crash. You just need to create backups fairly regularly.
This program takes up very little space and is not at all demanding on resources. It is only worth mentioning that it may freeze slightly when creating a backup copy of extensions, but in this case you just need to wait a little. The main thing is safety.
Hello, friends. You all know my love for Mozilla Firefox. So today I will tell you how to do profile backup this wonderful browser.
A browser profile is a file in which all your Internet browser settings are recorded (saved). Bookmarks, passwords, saved pages, sessions, search history, add-ons... in short - everything that you have changed for yourself since initial installation Mozilla Firefox .
Unforeseen situations happen in life all the time and blue screen System collapse can come to you suddenly, unexpectedly, like winter with snowfalls to public services. Unlike them, we need to be ready to meet them. And even with a simple reinstallation of the system, it will be more convenient to restore the browser settings in a minute, rather than re-register them within an hour.
I use the Speed Dial add-on in which I have 10 tabs and each has 30-35 visual bookmarks. Tell me how to remember them all if necessary? That's right - no way.
For this very important operation, we use an unsurpassed, small, free program by Czech author Pavel Cvrcek (a wonderful, beautiful country - I lived and worked there for six months) called MozBackup. You will learn all the nuances of backing up your Mozilla Firefox profile - when, where, how to do it, spending just a few seconds. All you need is...
Backup Mozilla profile should be done not when you have already noticed problems and glitches in the browser, but obviously when everything is fine . Clean it of unnecessary bookmarks and additions. Leave only really necessary settings. Done? Now download and install...
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Amazing. Now close the browser and run MozBackup…
As you can see, the program itself determined which version of the browser we are using. Without interfering with her work, we move on without changing anything.
Here you need to specify the location to save the profile backup. It is advisable to save it system disk, and where your data is stored. Create special folder, for example on drive D: and specify it here by clicking “Browse”...
A Firefox backup may be needed in many cases. For example, when reinstalling the operating system, to transfer bookmarks, passwords and browser settings to another computer, as well as when correcting errors and crashes in Firefox.
Backup Firefox by copying browser profile files
If you need to create a one-time backup copy of the Firefox browser to restore it on a new computer or after reinstalling the OS, then you can simply save the profile files of this browser in a convenient place, for example, on a memory card or disk. By default, these files are located at: c:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data (or AppData)\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\********.default\
To find and copy these files, File Explorer should display hidden files and folders.
After Firefox installations on a new computer or after Windows reinstallation the contents of the new profile folder must be replaced with the contents of this folder. After this, if necessary, you will need to enable some installed extensions.
To back up only the saved passwords, you need to find and save only two files from this folder: key3.db and signons2.txt.
Backup Firefox using the FEBE extension
The previous method is very simple and takes a little time, but often users remember about a backup copy when it’s too late. Therefore, it is better to take care of creating backups automatically and in advance. The FEBE extension is great for this. It can make backups like individual elements(for example, bookmarks, passwords, etc.) and the entire profile. You can also schedule these copies to be created daily, weekly, monthly, or when you start or close your browser.
To install the FEBE add-on, go to the extension page. Click the “Proceed to Installation” button. And on the next page - “Add to Firefox”.
After installation, restart the browser. If necessary, add the FEBE extension icon to the browser toolbar (right-click on the panel > Configure).
After this, you need to configure the extension. To do this, launch the FEBE settings window.
In the tab What to backup select the objects that need to be saved.
It is also possible to produce additional settings extension, connect it to cloud storage and view information about FEBE.
To restore the necessary data in a new browser, just install FEBE and select the necessary objects to restore in the extension menu. Or restore your profile completely.
After installing this extension in your browser, you don't have to worry about losing important bookmarks or saved passwords. You will also save a lot of time after reinstalling Windows or when transferring browser settings to a new computer.