In a previous installment of this blog I provided an easy-to-use how-to guide for performing a Firefox bookmarks backup. The challenge is however to be able to easily backup and restore not only the bookmarks, but the installed extensions, certificates, saved passwords etc’. This ability is essential in case we want to easily move our Mozilla Firefox settings between different computers or restore your data after a system crash.

MozBackup is a neat utility that not only backups and restores your Firefox data but also your Thunderbird settings. It provides you with an easy to use GUI that lets you configure your backup and restore settings. Backup is performed to a single file (with a *.pcv suffix, that can be open with WinZip).

Two caveats:

• Not all Firefox extensions backup is supported.
• As this is an independently developed utility, I would recommend you’ll test drive it before relying on it for your backups.

MozBackup can be downloaded here. An easy to follow user documentation can be found here.

[tags] Mozilla backup, Firefox backup, Thunderbird backup, Thunderbird, Firefox [/tags]

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