Quick answer sought to Firefox question

[Ubiquitous]

I am about to reformat, but I want to backup my firefox bookmarks. Does anyone know how I would go about doing this?

[Instant Sunrise]

I am about to reformat, but I want to backup my firefox bookmarks. Does anyone know how I would go about doing this?

Go to Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks.. and then File -> Export

[Ubiquitous]

I am about to reformat, but I want to backup my firefox bookmarks. Does anyone know how I would go about doing this?

Go to Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks.. and then File -> Export

You have done well. As a reward, you can be free from my influence for one hour.

And now, to format...

[Beowulf]

I'd have snagged the entire contents of your profile directory, actually. It's in X:\documents and settings\user name\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles .

[CorSec]

I was able to copy and paste without all that fancy export/import business. This works for both Firefox and Thunderbird.

For Firefox, I simply copied the entire Mozilla folder (documents and settings\user\application data\Mozilla).

Thunderbird was the same (documents and settings\user\application data\Thunderbird).

That is assuming that's where you had those programs store that information.

At least, that's what I remember doing.

[Netko]

Yeah, thats the best way. If you scope up your entire profile directory you can restore Firefox completely, including any extensions, saved passwords etc.

My current firefox setup survived three total reinstalls already - it is really handy to just drop it in there on a new install and automaticly have all the capability you were used to plus all the passwords [insert rant about the gazillion passwords one is supposed to remember today].

[Edi]

[insert rant about the gazillion passwords one is supposed to remember today].

This is what text files are for. Something innocuously named like Drinks.txt and have a list of user names, passwords and what sites they are for. Works beautifully, especially if you store it in some out of the way folder.

Edi

[Bounty]

MozBackup.

Creates one neat file with all your bookmarks, cookies, extensions, themes and anything else FF-related. Just copy the file to your new install and use Mozbackup again to import it into a fresh FF install.

[Netko]

Why use that when you can simply copy the profile dir onto a pristinly clean firefox install?

Edi, I have such files well organised and hidden - the problem is I usaly don't bother writing down the passwords to resources that I expect to only need once. Often, I'm wrong on that so then I either have to remember the my previous info or create a new account (how I love the various download service that reqire registration).

EDIT: Plus, I'm lazy - autocomplete is easier

[Bounty]

Why use that when you can simply copy the profile dir onto a pristinly clean firefox install?

It's one file with the backup date in the filename. Much more tidy then keeping track of seperate directories.

Plus I'm lazy.

[Netko]

But its anti-lazy since you have to install an extension to reinstall the backup. Putting the backed up profile directory back in place is only one cut/paste operation.

[Bounty]

It's actually a seperate program, not an extension. I only use it to backup my profile, not move it, so I only had to install it once.

Plus, IIRC it also backs up your plugins that aren't in your profile folder