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[Tool] Backup your Browser with ease using FavBackup

[Tool] Backup your Browser with ease using FavBackup

November 17, 2009  |  , , , ,  |  Comments

Browser’s have come to become an inevitable part of our lives now. Almost everyday I bookmark so many websites, save new passwords, install and remove extensions. With this changes everyday I was always on the lookout for a reliable and easy backup solution to my Browser data.

Till date Firefox along with FEBE satisfied all my needs, but doing backups using FEBE wasn’t easy and had its own share of disadvantages. Also over the years Chrome, Safari also have started to contribute quite a lot to my browser share. So what do I do?

I download and run the portable app FavBackup on my machine. In short this is what FavBackup does:

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Back up and restore your Firefox environment with FEBE

July 30, 2007  |  , , ,  |  Comments

Just a Week before my hard disk crashed and I lost all my data which includes a vast collection of music and videos and a lot of softwares and apps, and the worst thing was I didn’t have backup of all my stuff. But somehow i managed to get most of the stuff back from my friends, but there was one thing that i couldn’t do. Get my Firefox back in the same condition as it was before the crash. Its been a week now and i have managed to install all my favorite greasemonkey scripts and addons and got my bookmarks etc all set.

And to my utter delight i found this one heck of a Firefox addon called Firefox Environment Backup Extension (FEBE), that does exactly what the name says. Yes you are right it makes a backup of all your current firefox settings like themes,installed addons, themes etc.

Here are some more juicy details about this wonderful extension

  • FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up — It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Now you can easily synchronize your office and home browsers.
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