Today's #Firefox Nightly makes the profile backup feature available by default.

[mconley@fosstodon.org]

Today's #Firefox Nightly makes the profile backup feature available by default.

The profile backup feature, when enabled, will take a snapshot of your profile and pack it into a single file that you can restore from on the same or a different machine. You can choose to encrypt the backup with a passphrase.

In a recent #Firefox Nightly, visit about:settings#sync and scroll down to the Backup section to manage it.

[metasieben@mastodon.social]

@mconley Awesome, great work!

Wondering, did you see the "problem" with portable versions of Firefox?
Looks like they even filed a bug. https://bugzil.la/2034043

[freddy@social.security.plumbing]

@metasieben @mconley so-called "portable versions" are some random person’s project. These are not supported and known to have various security issues. I recommend using a supported Firefox version from Mozilla

[metasieben@mastodon.social]

@freddy @mconley I agree.

it looks like this person used the portable version as a way to do support on an locked down device.

(www.reddit.com)

The "cannot restore" sounded to me like, the backup did not restore (fully) to the "custom" profile path. AFAIK this is a supported usecase.