I want to save my firefox data on a hard drive prior to reformatting my hard drive
I am running the latest version of Firefox (V62?). I would like to save my logins, passwords, bookmarks, adblocker etc on to a portable hard drive and then be able to re-import them. I have found 'backup and restore' where I am presentd with the option to copy raw data to clipboard. How? Where is the clipboard? Why can't I copy it to my portable drive? Am I approaching this in the correct manner? Why whenever I try to search for things like where is my clipboard win 10 do I get Bing this and Bing that? Thanks for reading my gripe / problems, any help gratefully appreciated. Mike
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Hi Mike, there's no internal command for this. Firefox has a feature to back up or export bookmarks, but that's about it.
I suggest making a copy of the entire Firefox folder found using the following shortcut link in Windows Explorer or the Windows 10 search box:
%APPDATA%\Mozilla
That should expand to:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla
AppData is a hidden folder, so for easier navigation, see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14201/windows-show-hidden-files
Important: For Firefox, it is the \Mozilla\Firefox folder under Roaming that you want, not the data under Local where Firefox stashes the cache and other temporary/disposable content.
Some references:
Thank you, the way you have explained it makes sense to me (I think!). At least I don't feel baffled, bamboozled and sidetracked!! ! I shall attempt this tomorrow. Mike
As to backup you can backup the bookmark and just write down the addons to download them later. As for passwords I write them down or use "NotePad" to save them and then store that onto a USB drive so when you log back in you can input them and save them again with FF.
WestEnd, that is very good of you. I also make backups of my profile data.