Spend weeks or months configuring Firefox, downloading and testing various add-ons, themes and adding your favourite bookmarks, only to find that a system crash or drive failure means you lose the whole lot need to start all over again. It is a problem. As our web browser is becoming the central hub for our system, if you rely on your browser to store all your most private information, then if you lose this data then you have to run around and find all this information and hope you've written it down on paper.

Firefox Backup Extension 6.2 is one solution and it's free. It will backup your preferences, your download and installed extensions, cookies, passwords and much more. Better still, you can then restore the data on another computer, so it's a good tool for rolling out the same configuration across multiple computers.

Firefox Backup Extension link.

30 Jul 2009