Every browser comes a new user profile where all of your favorites, page/search histories, addons, cookies, preferences and other settings are stored.Any computer user always runs the risk of losing his data due to program or computer crash. If you use Firefox as your Primary Browser, you may prefer to back up regularly to guard against the possibility that their profile gets corrupted or wiped after installing a new extension or a new version of Firefox.
What is New (Wednesday, February 19th – 2020)
1. [ADDED] – Portable Firefox Support
2. [ADDED] – File – “Firefox links” feature reads from .ini file
3. [ADDED] – Ability to open the backup folder from the action menu
There are some ways to back up:
1. Use a backup utility
2. Do it yourself manually
3. Use Firefox Sync function
Backing up Firefox manually is as simple as copying their respective profile folders to another location. For example;
Key4.db : contains a key used to encrypt and decrypt saved passwords
logins.json : stores the encrypted names and passwords
Places.sqlite : stores the annotations, bookmarks, favorite icons, input history, keywords, and browsing history
Cookies.sqlite : is used to store cookies between sessions
If you do that, you’ll have a full backup with all your setting and personal data saved. Syncing is NOT as good as backing up because it is usually not Long-Term , syncing will not ensure that your files are safe and You can’t trust your vital computer data to syncing; you must back it up. When you back something up to a hard drive or external HDD/USB flash drive , they stay there until you decide to delete them. If you need a file from last week, last month or last year, it will be there exactly the way you backed it up.
Backup and restore Your Firefox Bookmarks , Passwords and settings
Backing up of important data is always a smart thing to do. “Simple Firefox Backup” is a portable Freeware Tool that will help you easily create back-up copies of your Mozilla Firefox data . The software is an automated version of the manual method it does not read your passwords, and doesn’t change any files. Passwords and bookmarks are Private data.There can be no justification for reading them (For example “Key4.db” file). The software which can read the encrypted Passwords can steal them too, please stay away from such software, if you want to see your passwords, just type “about:logins” into the Firefox’s address bar. (Be very careful with the software that reads the passwords)
How to use Simple Firefox backup
Run the appropriate exe file (x64 or x86) and click second button (Create Firefox Backup)
Your backup has been created with time stamp. On GUI you will see the Backup Folders names like Firefox Backup 1,2,3 … To Restore one of them choose it and use First Button (Restore Backup), or just Right click on it and use Restore backup feature. You can also delete one/some or all of the backup folders with using trash can button.
On default settings Simple Firefox Backup create a backup with 9 Files , but you can choose which files to back up for example if you don’t want to backup “search.json.mozlz4” file choose File – Open Config File and set the search.json.mozlz4 number to 0
1 – Simple Firefox Backup will backup it
0 – Simple Firefox Backup will Not backup it
How to use Simple Firefox Backup with portable Firefox
You can use Simple Firefox Backup to save your Portable Firefox Settings, Passwords , Bookmarks , Plugins … usw
1. Choose File – Firefox Portable option
2. Select the “firefoxportable.exe” file
NOTE : “Simple Firefox Backup” use current user profile which set by default for the backup
Simple Firefox Backup has Cmd parameter support
You can use Cmd commands to backup to a different location.
fBackup.exe /C C:\TestFolder\
To restore a backup from different directory use following cmd parameters
fBackup.exe /R C:\TestFolder\
You should choose Simple Firefox Backup because , it is Portable , it is Up to date , it doesn’t read your Passwords and very simple to use.
Supported operating systems: Windows 11 , Windows 10 , Windows 8.1 , Windows 8 , Windows 7 – (both x86 and x64)
Supported languages: English
File: fBackup_x64.exe – Virustotal
MD5: bbd9629f4877c906fe8ae510abcbaac6
SHA1: f947d08e1a3a7972b8dfdf6e851c3c818da52215
File: fBackup.exe – Virustotal
MD5: 4691bc4eec7700ce5cdadf0bbb336ebd
SHA1: 44c88785b7ae79f8da350d6ed6baabdab2f7b37f
I need this kind of software for "Brave"
"Author February 7, 2020
… We will add an option to choose backup directory next version. Schedule backup may be available in next version too."
Time is out! ))
No update for 2 years – that’s what I call product maintenance!
Yes please. Make this tool also save the extensions settings. It will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Hello there @Sordum Team,
Could you please add an option for this to save the add-ons settings too, if possible?
This is an amazing program. Thank you for sharing it for free.
love it , now that moz backup is dead.
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The last autoupdate, v95 of FF erased all profiles on my PC< after long hour of find my bookmarks
in major backup , off line serve here
I found it,….
FF makes great blunders , do not trust ff to not erase the who profile folder.
a million thank you's to you !!! keep em coming.
"Firefox Profile Folder" button in toolbar opens Firefox Profile Manager instead of the profile folder.
Basically good, but software doesn’t backup everything. E.g. add-ons will be saved but not their settings (sometimes user want clean profile but others would like to have the exact profile). Im my case I need the settings too because I have many cookieblocker, Darkmode and HTML-Downoaoder add-ons and they must be configured perfectly to display as many websites smoothly as possible.
So assuming would be great impovement to let user decide whether they like to full copy (whole folder %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\) or only the part of it.
Hi Lucas
On GUI you will see the Backup Folders names like Firefox Backup 1,2,3 … To Restore one of them choose it and use First Button (Restore Backup), or just Right click on it and use Restore backup feature.
But can You explain me how to use it on another laptop (computer) ? I made Backup by Create Firefox Backup, it is in folder fBackup and what’s next ? And what to do on different laptop (computer) to have whole History from Mozilla installed on the root laptop (computer) ? Thank You in advance for assistance.
By default add-ons are backed up , The files to be backed up are determined under the [Firefox_Backup_Files] line in the fBackup.ini file.
Hi, do you have support to backup browser extensions?
It would be GREAT to have such a tool for Mozilla Thunderbird. I always struggle to set it back after a Windows Reinstallation and copying the profile is not so simple, because of the profiles.ini file to set back.
Anyway, thanks a lot for all those free pieces of software that look useful and practical for many Windows usages !
Simple Firefox Backup automatically detects the profile folder of firefox which installed on the system. If you are using portable firefox, there is also the option to select the portable folder in the File menu.
Hey, I really like this software, its extremely useful to me considering I move between computers often. Would you be able to add a feature to backup the settings from a firefox install that isnt the current one? So for example, if I have firefox installation on the D drive but for some reason the D drive wont boot, would you be able to add a feature that allows for you to select firefox installs that aren’t on the C drive? That would be very helpful!
Please run the program after extracting it from the zip file, Since you run it from Zip, the program was extracted to the temp folder and therefore this happened
The software is not backing up the Firefox Profile as described by Mozilla for manual backup. which is contained in C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles/(profile name)
It showing that its taking the backup from C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EXa2176.32057\fBackup\FirefoxBackup\Firefox_20210122_164634
As stated this is not where Mozilla explain the profile is stored