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The Best Mozilla Firefox BackUp Tool

April 5th, 2008 |

I haven’t written for a few days because I have been backing up my laptop in order to put it back to factory settings because it was doing some very strange things. It has now been completed and believe it or not one of my biggest worries was that I would loose all my internet browsing history and passwords. I know how to back up my bookmarks and although I would have been upset to loose them the history and passwords, to me, is worth much more.

I use Mozilla Firefox because I love all the add ons and customisation options. After a short search on good old Google I found an add on to back up my user profile, but after reading the reviews it seemed that many had issues, but someone mentioned MozBackup (you can read about it here) working perfectly first time so I downloaded both and made a backup using both.

Now that my laptop is fully restored, the first thing I wanted to do was to get my history back, so I crossed my fingers and ran through MozBackup … it worked Yes, it worked first time without any issues and everything was restored in one go; history, passwords, bookmarks, cookies (if you choose them), options and add ons. The only issue I had was that it did not keep my rss feeds in the rss feed reader that you can add on, but that was fine as I had made a separate back up of them just in case. Just by having my history and passwords all in order I can forgive that very very small shortcoming.

I therefore recommend everyone to use Mozilla Firefox and to download MozBackup and make regular back ups of your user profile. That way if anything bad happens you can restore it all in just a few clicks.

If you do not yet have Mozilla Forefox, in my opinion the best browser around today, you can download it for free by clicking on the button on the top right hand navigation menu.

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