How to Completely Backup and Restore the Entire Firefox Profile

Firefox has almost become the only solution to your internet browsing these days. Despite the advent of Chrome and the promise of Opera 11, not much of an impact is to be seen regarding people’s trust over Firefox. Firefox also manages your bookmarks, passwords, private and public information and saves it all under your profile. So, what if it crashes suddenly one day or you want to format your Windows? Backing them up or to export them all to some other browser can not be a viable alternative and also it won’t be 100% transferred as well. Here is a short tutorial which will tell you how.

To Restore

1. First download MozBackup and install it. Make sure that your Firefox is not running at that time.
2. After its done, Go to Start -> All Programs -> MozBackup -> MozBackup.exe
3. Click on next and you will see that it automatically searches for and detects the installed browsers on your computer and shows them separately in each line.



4. Choose the browser for which you want to take your profile backup [say its Firefox] and click Next
5. Now choose the Profile, Save Location and click on Next button
6. Here you will be prompted for password protection. Its your take.
7. Now check the options which you want to take backup for. When selected click Next button. You will get lots of options to backup. general settings, downloaded list, bookmarks, history, saved password, cooking, saved from details, certificates etc.
8. When done. Click OK. And your backing up is finished

To Restore

To restore a profile go to step 3, see the image and click on Restore a profile click Next button and navigate it to the saved profile file to start Restoring. Done.

[Source: i333.blogspot.com]