Closed Bug 269640 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Back up option (settings, bookmarks, extentions, etc)

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

x86
Linux
enhancement
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: sha256sum, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

As people install more and more extensions, the settings become more
complicated, and harder to reproduce again on another computer, e.g. being ones
notebook or a friends/new users computer.

So I would like to suggest a entry in preferences called Back up. When pressed
the user should see something like this:

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Select the items to back up

* Bookmarks
* Extensions
* Extension settings
* FireFox settings
* Themes
               ____________________________
Back up file: |____________________________|

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The idea should be, that it should output a tar.gz file containing everything
that the user selected.

Selecting "extensions", "themes" should include the extensions and themes.

If the extensions can't be copied from the current computer, it should download
the xpi file, and include that in the final tar.gz file.

Losing the Adblock blacklist or Cookie white list, would not be fun at all, so I
see great need for such a feature.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.
Just find your profile folder
<http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit#profile> and make a copy of it to
create a backup of all your personal settings.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
You are right, it is easy if I want to back everything up, but in the case,
where I want to give my extensions with settings to a friend, there it trouble.

As it is now, I do not know of any way to export the extension settings, and
having a entry in FireFox just for back up proposes, would be an elegant
solution the "back up bookmark problem" aswell which there is a bug report for.




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