Automatically Backup Your Firefox Profile To Box.net With FEBE

by Abhijeet on August 12, 2008

in Firefox

I talked about the FEBE firefox add on in my post - 3 Useful Methods to Back Up Your Firefox Preferences. FEBE certainly was my preferred choice for backing up Firefox profile until the introduction of Firefox 3 which broke the extension. However now it has been updated with some latest features, the most interesting one being the automatic profile backup feature to the online file storage site - Box.net .

Box.net in FEBE

As you can see, the FEBE options window now includes a box.net option which can help you to either manually or automatically upload your firefox profile to box.net. You also have the option to upload the last backup which will upload the previous FEBE backups to your box.net account.

It’s important to note that although a free account at box.net gives you a 1 GB storage space, the file transfer size limit is set at 10 MB. So if you are a heavy firefox user with a lot of add ons and other stuff in your firefox profile then you may just surpass that limit which would mean that you cannot upload your profile unless you get a paid account with them. However it is still pretty useful since you could selectively backup just your bookmarks and extensions and upload them.

Box.net FEBE upload

This feature could come in handy if you need to work on a different computer and need your firefox preferences. You could just install the FEBE extension first and then download and restore stuff from box.net. Since FEBE provides a lot of backup options ranging from the entire profile to just your user names and passwords, you could always download and restore selective preferences.

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Eric 08.12.08 at 4:06 am

Wow I had no idea FireFox needed an external tool/service to do this. What a pain!

Opera has all of this built in and it synchronizes with my.opera.com.

Most of the good things in Firefox were in Opera first. If people understood this more I’m sure more people would upgrade to Opera. I stopped using Firefox 2 years ago and have never looked back.

tom 08.24.08 at 2:46 am

Stay away from Mozilla. They are highly unprofessional. Their solution for everything is to insult and ban you.

I asked for support on their forums. I got this:

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/8517/mozillazinefirefoxforumpn4.jpg

alex 10.04.08 at 6:56 pm

What about Opera? Does is have a backup option?

David 10.25.08 at 10:06 pm

@tom

You should be aware that mozillazine is a third-party site and not run by Mozilla.

Money Saving Tips 11.11.08 at 10:25 pm

Ah nice, real useful will be trying this out today.

Chaminda 11.30.08 at 10:08 pm

I backed up my FF profiles, extensions, etc on the Box.net. Then, having re-formatted computer and reinstalled my firefox,includeing the FEBE add-on, when I tried to restore from Box.net what I had previously backed up, there was no way of doing it. Please let me know how to go about this problem.

slavezero 01.29.09 at 2:39 pm

I’m currently using mozbackup to backup my firefox and thunderbird profile. this firefox addon looks really nice and easy to use. I will give this backup tool a try. thanks for sharing :)

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