Firefox Environment Backup Extension

The Firefox Environment Backup Extension -short FEBE – offers a great and easy way to backup all Firefox settings, themes and extensions. I was looking for a way to synchronize all of my settings from my desktop computer to Firefox that was also installed on my notebook.

I first thought that I had to manually backup the profile, extensions and all other settings like cookies and move them from my desktop computer to my notebook. This would be a lot of work and I was hoping for a way to synchronize everything without doing all the manual work.

After installing Febe it is important to take a look at the options offered to define the directory that should store the backup of the settings and select all the elements that you want to backup. Febe offers the most comprehensive way to backup every aspect of Firefox, here is a list of possibilities:

Backup Extensions, Themes, Bookmarks, Preferences, Cookies, userChrome.css, userContent.css, usernames and passwords, phishing data, search plugins, browser and form fill history, permissions and user defined backups.

It is furthermore possible to schedule backups and create timestamped backups.

The only thing that is really missing is a way to automatically sync data between several computers.

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8 Responses to “Firefox Environment Backup Extension”

1. Steve J says:

   July 3, 2007 at 5:53 pm

   Sounds interesting, any chance of a link?
2. Martin says:

   July 3, 2007 at 6:11 pm

   here you go :)
3. Steve J says:

   July 3, 2007 at 6:49 pm

   thanks :-)
4. Dante says:

   July 4, 2007 at 3:06 am

   Neat! Keep up with the info. Thanks.
5. lonely says:

   March 11, 2008 at 6:10 am

   MozBackup is better

   http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
6. Vince says:

   January 9, 2009 at 4:33 pm

   “lonely says:
   MozBackup is better”

   Care to say why it’s better?
   Thanks

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1. 苦牢之最後一年 says:

   July 4, 2007 at 5:05 pm

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2. Firefox Extension Preferences Import and Export says:

   April 27, 2008 at 7:10 pm

   [...] recognizable. The benefit of using OPIE instead of a full Firefox backup extension like FEBE – Firefox Environment Backup Extension – is that OPIE can selectively export and import preferences while all other extensions that backup [...]