The application supports the five popular web browsers Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari, and offers to backup bookmarks and other data from one or multiple browsers at once.

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Browsers can be selected to be included in the backup at the top of the single program window. The only other element that the user needs to specific is the backup folder location on the local computer system. A click on Backup will start the backup of the selected browsers. The program recommends to close all browsers before proceeding, as the backup process may be blocked or halted if they are running.

Bookmarks Backup, as mentioned earlier will not only backup bookmarks but also other data. For Firefox, Opera and Chrome, the whole profile folder is backed up and stored in the backup location. For Internet Explorer only the favorites are saved. Safari was not installed and I was not able to test it, but I assume that the backup will include the full profile as well.

Backups can be restored in the same interface. It is basically a reverse of the process. It begins by selecting the browsers and the restore folder location. A click on Restore will restore the selected backup to all browsers that have been selected by the user.

Bookmarks Backup offers an easy way of backing up data of web browsers. It could use some additional options, like letting the user decide what to backup or scheduling of backups. But as it stands, it is one of the most convenient ways of backing up multiple web browser profiles at once.

How does it compare to Fav Backup, another browser backup tool? The main advantage of Bookmarks Backup is that multiple browsers can be selected at once for backup. In FavBackup, only one browser can be selected for backup at a time. Then again, FavBackup offers better customization of the backup by offering to only backup items that have been selected by the user. FavBackup offers additional advantages, it is a portable application for instance and can backup the default web browser profile or all profiles.

Still, Bookmarks Backup could be an interesting alternative for users who run multiple web browsers on their computer system. The software is available at the developers website.

The jump to version 2 of the web browser backup software brings support for Opera 10 and Flock 2.5 (next to the already existing support for Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 2.9 to Firefox 3.6, Google Chrome 1 to Google Chrome 4, Safari 3 and 4, Opera 9 and Flock 3). This should cover the most used web browsers in the Windows operating system.

One of the great additions in FavBackup 2 is support for portable web browsers. It is now possible to select a custom location for the user profile for Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome, Safari and Flock. It is furthermore possible to select any of the identified profiles of the supported web browsers directly.

Other changes in this release are the new ribbon interface, a progress bar, different themes for the backup program, 40% less computer memory usage and minor bug fixes. The new additions make FavBackup 2 a recommended program for web browser backups, especially if multiple different web browsers are installed and used in a computing environment.