Today's #Firefox Nightly makes the profile backup feature available by default.
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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.
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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.
@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 -
@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@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
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@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
it looks like this person used the portable version as a way to do support on an locked down device.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1srhw3d/cannot_restore_backup_created_using_firefoxs/
The "cannot restore" sounded to me like, the backup did not restore (fully) to the "custom" profile path. AFAIK this is a supported usecase.
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