Comments on: A quick way to backup a Firefox extension or profile

By: Eric Wendelin

Eric Wendelin — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:36:27 +0000

@julie:

You’ll see that I mention FEBE as my favorite utility near the end of my post.

By: julie

julie — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:50:55 +0000

how bout using FEBE addon? it makes the backup of even themes and other things.

By: gialloporpora

gialloporpora — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:20:31 +0000

I hope it work also for you :-)
I have tested it with some extensions and it works (for me).
Ciao

By: Eric Wendelin

Eric Wendelin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:47:58 +0000

@gialloporpora:

Nice! I’ll give that a try! Thank you!

By: gialloporpora

gialloporpora — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:11:41 +0000

If you want, I have written a little BATCH file to automatically download extensions from AMO (only from AMO) and packaging them in a multi XPI file.
After decompressing archive in a folder, you need to run install.bat to copy the Gnuwin32 tool (wget, sed and zip) to the correct path.
After executing script, you find a new file “multixpi.xpi”, installing it as extension all your extensions are installed.
To configure script to download your extensions:
1) edit the file default.mxpi (or create another mxpi file) and insert the link to the extension page on AMO.
2) run the file “quickstart.bat” (or from prompt the file createmultixpi.bat using the mxpi file as parameter)
After executing script, you find a new file “multixpi.xpi”, installing it as extension all your extensions are installed.

Problems:
- it works ongly with extensions on AMO and it doesn’t works with extensions in sand box
2) it have no support to proxy (I think is easy to modify this)

I hope it works also for you, I have tried it and I think it work.

This is the file:
http://www.box.net/shared/p4wkbgnwg0

By: gialloporpora

gialloporpora — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:52:16 +0000

The only thing that I backup are:
- userchrome, userContent and user.js
- bookmarks (via Foxmarks)
- search plugins
I have a BATCH file to update a 7z archive that I run sometimes.
For extension, I prefere to download it in my local computer with Wget to have a local copy.
I think is also possible to create a script to automatically download and install extension, but I don’t have still created it (but I think it is not very difficult to create).

For example, using this code:
http://www.gialloporpora.netsons.org/index.php/2006/11/15/impacchettare-piu-estensioni-in-un-unico-file-xpi/

you can create a file install.rdf
if you download all your extension (for example with WGET), and you pack all this XPI files (and install.rdf) with, for example 7zip, you have created a multi-xpi package of your extensions.

Sorry for my english, I hope you understand what I have said.

Ciao

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