Firefox has become the defacto standard for web developers across the globe. Through easily available extensions it is a indisposable tool for professional web workers.I didnt realise how much of my productivity was tied into firefox until my Mac went bust and I had to re-install firefox. Like all developers, over time I had accumulated quite a few nifty time-saving Firefox Extensions and bookmarklets like The Web Developer Toolbar, ColorZilla color picker, Firebug debug console and the Tiny HTML validator.

My Fresh Install of firefox was lacking all these extensions and i spent quite a bit of time finding and installing them again and syncing my bookmarks [ which existed across Foxmarks and Delicious ] only to find that I had neglected to manually backup my saved passwords, Having being born with the attention span of a goldfish i struggle to manage passwords and ids across multiple websites, so the loss of my auto-filled passwords had made life hell.

Hoping to avoid this scramble next time around I decided to investigate the various options available for backing up firefox profiles.

Firefox Backup Options

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