Its is prudent to backup your browser’s profiles, just in case the application goes sour. Describing what you feel when all your passwords or bookmarks are lost because your browser went loco, is beyond words. The same goes for critical information stored in your hard disk. This information should also be backed-up just in case the hard disk burns up.
Here are 4 free tools which will let you backup and preserve your browser profile, so all the tweaking you’ve done is safe.
- Mozbackup is a cross Mozilla backup utility which allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc. It works for Firefox, Flock, and any of the other Mozilla based browsers (i.e., the Sea Monkey browser).
- (Mac Only) Apple provides an uncharacteristically round-about way of backing up your bookmarks on its support portal, but if you’re interested in getting a tool which would help automate the process, try out ‘Safari Backup And Restore’.
- BackRex Internet Explorer Backup is a backup and restore tool for Internet Explorer. It allows you to backup favorites, history, proxy settings, fonts, autocomplete passwords and cookies. Not only that—it supports backups across different versions of IE (i.e., IE 6 to IE7 and vice versa).
- Opera is the only browser that actually released a proper official backup utility for their browser, and as a result—it’s a top class product called OperaFly. Aside from handling the basic backups, it also has the ability to backup and restore to/from an FTP server, send backups via email, and to restore backups from a http site. It also allows for pre-scheduled backups and automatic backups when the browser is closed.
I can’t emphasize enough the importance of backing up your information. You will save a lot of trouble and pain if something awful suddenly happens to your applications or your hard disk. Good Day!
Source: Friedbeef’s Tech
