Backup Firefox Profile Data in Windows, Linux and Mac

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Mozilla Firefox has increasingly become popular and now is the default browser for many of the internet surfers. The browser which was used only by geeks earlier is being used by commoners too these days. With the popularity of the browsers, there have been reports of many problems experienced by the users. One such common problem is crashing of Mozilla Firefox. Whatever the reason for this crashing, the first solution advised to solve this problem is reinstalling the browser.

When you are reinstalling your browser or even when you are changing your computer, you would want to backup your Mozilla Firefox data. Though, there are automated tools to backup Mozilla Firefox profiles, they don’t work on crashign browser. So here is the manual method to have a full backup of your Mozilla Firefox settings and personal data.
The backing up of Mozilla Firefox is as simple as copying the respective folders to your backup location. So for the people who want to have our famous step-by-step guide, here it goes .

• Find out what is your Operating System and close your Mozilla Firefox incase it is running.
• If you are in Windows system, go to Start-> Run and enter %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ . This opens your Firfox profiles folder.
• If you are in Macintosh system, go to home and then to Library. From there go to Application Support , then Firefox and then Profiles .
• If you are in Linux, go to ~/.mozilla/firefox .
• You will have a folder(directory) something like xxxxxxxx.default (xxxxxxxx is a random 8 character string).
• Copy the folder to your backup location and rename it as FirefoxBackup.
• When you install  Firefox newly, take the contents of the FirefoxBackup folder and place them in the contents of new Profile. To locate the new profile, follow the same above instructions.
  

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