News (January 2010)
All of the extensions on this site have been successfully tested on Firefox 3.6. If you find any compatibility issues please e-mail me with the full details of the problem.
If Firefox lists an extension as incompatible then please reinstall it using the links on this page.
Bookmark Backup
Version 0.4.11
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Install Bookmark Backup 0.4.11
Description
Bookmark Backup is a simple extension that helps to keep your bookmarks (and optionally other Firefox settings) safe. Each time Firefox is closed, a copy of your bookmarks file will be made to a backup location. If Firefox's bookmarks become corrupted or lost, find the most recent uncorrupted backup and copy it into your profile folder. By default the backups can be found in the Backups folder inside Firefox's profile folder, though this location can be changed in Bookmark Backup's Options dialog.
Additionally, thanks to code contributed by Nickolay Ponomarev, other files may also be backed up along with the bookmarks file. You can specify which files to backup in the Options dialog. Just check the box for each type of setting you want backed up, any other files can be listed in the following text box separated by a | character. Please refer to the MozillaZine Knowledge Base for details about what data is stored in each file.
Please remember, this extension should be used in addition to a regular profile backup not as a replacement.
Note: Firefox 1.5 (and later) makes its own backup of your bookmarks, therefore this extension is only useful if you want to backup other settings or to control where the backups are stored.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
1. Why is the backed up copy of bookmarks.html an old file?
Firefox 3 and later now store their bookmarks in a file called places.sqlite, the bookmarks.html file is no longer used. You can confirm this by checking the last modified date of the original bookmarks.html file in your profile.
2. I have lost my bookmarks, how do I restore the backup?
- Close Firefox.
- Find the Backups folder in your profile folder (or in your custom backup location, if configured).
- Go into the sub-folder from yesterday (don't use today's backup, it will be corrupted). Copy whichever files you wish to restore into your profile folder.
- Restart Firefox.
If you use Windows and don't know how to perform any of these steps please feel free to e-mail me and I'll try to walk you through them.
3. Does this extension work on Mac OS?
Maybe, some people say it does, other say it doesn't. I don't own a Mac so I can't confirm one way or the other.
4. Why is there a bookmarkbackups folder in my profile? How do I disable it?
The bookmarkbackups folder is created by Firefox itself (this feature was added in Firefox 1.5). The two sets of backups should not conflict, however if you wish to disable the built-in backup you can do so by setting browser.bookmarks.max_backups to 0 (this requires Firefox 2 or later).
5. Will you add support for, timestamped backups, more than 7 days of backups, less than 7 days of backups, scheduled backups, weekly instead of daily backups, or backing up files outside the profile?
At the moment I have no plans for any of those features.
6. Can I use wildcards in the other files box?
To a limited extent yes, you can backup a whole folder simply by typing it's name (e.g. Cache). You can backup a set of files with the same extension by typing *.extension (e.g. *.rdf), using the * operator in any other position will not work.
7. Can I use paths in the other files box?
Bookmark Backup supports primitive relative paths, use a forward slash (/) as the path separator. There's currently no way to backup files outside the profile folder.
Contributors
- Nickolay Ponomarev (Multiple file backup code)
- Thomas Bertels (Icon and French translation)
- Patrick Ruh (German translation, retired)
- Carlos of Proyecto Nave (Spanish translation)
- Willy Young (Traditional Chinese translation)
- Giovanni Francesco Solone of eXtenZilla.it (Italian translation)
- Orçun Apaydýn (Turkish translation)
- Petr Jirsa (Czech translation)
- Sampan Sittiwantana (Thai translation)
- Premier (Japanese translation)
- SlovakSoft (Slovak translation)
- bigbigbomb (Simplified Chinese translation)
- Toni Hermoso Pulido (Catalan translation)
- KAMI (Hungarian translation)
- Pedro Failla (Brazilian Portuguese translation)
- Junyeob Kim of Mozilla Update Korea (Korean translation)
- Team erweiterungen.de (German translation)
Release History
0.4.11
- Added support for the latest Firefox 4 nightlies (2010-07-02 and above).
0.4.10
- Updated the list of backed up files for current trunk builds (2008-08-18 and above).
0.4.9
- Added support for Firefox 3 final.
0.4.8
- Updated the list of backed up files for current trunk builds (2008-03-14 and above).
0.4.7
- Updated the list of backed up files for current trunk builds (2007-12-06 and above).
0.4.6
- Updated the list of backed up files for current trunk builds (2007-06-21 and above).
0.4.5
- Updated the list of backed up files for current trunk builds (2007-06-18 and above). Thanks Tony E.
0.4.4
- Updated the list of backed up files for current trunk builds (2007-05-22 and above).
0.4.3
- Updated the list of backed up files for Firefox 2.0.0.2 and current trunk builds (thanks Alan Baxter and Tony E).
0.4.2
- Added support for Firefox 2 final. Due to my lateness in getting the file to the translators not all locales are ready yet, if your locale is missing please check back later, I'll update the extension and this post as locales come in. The following locales are included at the time of writing (2006-12-01): ca, cs-CZ, de-DE, en-US, es-ES, fr-FR, hu-HU, it-IT, ja, ko-KR, sk, th-TH, zh-CN, zh-TW.
- Added a Korean (ko-KR) locale, contributed by Junyeob Kim of Mozilla Update Korea.
0.4.1
- Fixed a potential backup failure when the bookmarks file can't be found.
- Added a Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) locale, contributed by Pedro Failla.
0.4
- Partially rewritten to make the extension more reliable, additionally it now performs backups both at shutdown and every 2 hours. The backup interval can be tweaked by setting the bookmarkbackup.interval pref to a value in minutes, you can also enable/disable startup/shutdown backups with the bookmarkbackup.startupBackup and bookmarkbackup.shutdownBackup prefs.
- Added a logging mode to help track down backup problems. To enable it set the pref bookmarkbackup.loggingEnabled to true, this will create a file named
bookmarkbackup.login your profile folder. - Added an icon, contributed by Thomas Bertels.
- This extension no longer works on older versions of Firefox, you must be using Firefox 1.5 or above.
- Added a Catalan (ca-AD) locale, contributed by Toni Hermoso Pulido.
- Added a Hungarian (hu-HU) locale, contributed by KAMI.
0.3.3
- Changed the passwords checkbox in the Options dialog to also backup pre-Firebird 0.7 style password files (e.g. 1234567.s) since people with old profiles may still be using that style of file.
- Added an Italian (it-IT) locale, contributed by Giovanni Francesco Solone of eXtenZilla.it.
- Added a Turkish (tr-TR) locale, contributed by Orçun Apaydýn.
- Added a French (fr-FR) locale, contributed by Thomas Bertels.
- Added a Czech (cs-CZ) locale, contributed by Petr Jirsa.
- Added a Thai (th-TH) locale, contributed by Sampan Sittiwantana.
- Added a Japanese (ja-JP) locale, contributed by Premier.
- Added a Slovak (sk-SK) locale, contributed by SlovakSoft.
- Added a Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) locale, contributed by bigbigbomb.
0.3.2
- Fixed an issue with backing up whole folders (e.g. Cache) from the profile folder.
- Added a Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) locale, contributed by Willy Young.
0.3.1
- The most common settings now have a checkbox in the Options dialog to make it easier to specify the files to be backed up.
- Each day's backups are now copied into a sub-folder of the Backups folder, this keeps the files for each day together and resolves the problem of files getting the wrong extension.
- Added a German (de-DE) locale, contributed by Patrick Ruh.
- Added a Spanish (es-ES) locale, contributed by Carlos of Proyecto Nave.
- Removed the automatic
install.rdfupdate link due to bandwidth constraints, from now on you'll have to manually check for updates.
0.3
- Bookmark Backup can now optionally backup other files in your profile. Simply go to the Options dialog and enter a list of extra files to be backed up (separated with the
|character). Code contributed by Nickolay Ponomarev (thanks Nick).
0.2.1
- Fixed some previously unlocalisable strings.
0.2
- The backup location can now be specified in Bookmark Backup's Options window.
- Fixed the Linux permissions issue when creating the Backups directory.
0.1.2
- Now supports the backup of a bookmarks file that has been moved with browser.bookmarks.file.
0.1.1
- Bookmark backups are now stored in a sub-directory of the profile directory named
Backups.
0.1
- Initial Release.
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I really like your work!! I think it would be really helpful to be able to associate dates to your various versions/release notes histories. At least it would be helpful to me.
Thank you for your continued hard work!
AC,
It's possible it doesn't work on a Mac, I don't have access to one so I can't test it. It is possible to manually install an extension but I don't advise it unless you consider yourself very computer literate. You need to unzip the xpi file (it's just a standard zip file), copy the bookmarkbackup.jar into the chrome sub-folder of your Firefox directory and add the following lines to the end of installed-chrome.txt (make sure to leave a blank line after these two lines):
content,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/bookmarkbackup.jar!/content/bookmarkbackup/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/bookmarkbackup.jar!/locale/en-US/bookmarkbackup/
firefox junkie,
I keep meaning to do that but always forget :-)
Hello,
I like your extensions like CloneWindows and Bookmarkbackup, but I have a problem with XML. If I click on properities I get the small windows with XML Error and chrome://bookmarkbackup/content/bookmarkbackup.xul on line 7 and row 1.
AC,
I am having the same problem. Every extension I try to install, even from Mozilla site, will always crash the browser.
I am on a Powerbook G4 17, OSX 10.2.8, and Firebird 0.8
I have even tried a nightly build from the developer site. you would think if it were a problem with the browser that it would be a high priority for fixes.
I am guessing I have some security or compayibility setting, somewhere, restricting a certain part of the installation script... or... as Pike says, it may not be developed on a MAC. But it's hard to believe so many Windows users woudln't use their daddy Gate's browser. ;)
Feel free to email me if you find out anything, and ditto back to you if you email me your address.
Thanks all!
All these extensions look nice. Like dancers at the Cheetah. I can see them, I just can't get my hands on them!
:(
spam@jasonandchristy.com
Christof,
That error seems to occur on some translations of Firefox (but not others). I think it is due to a problem with certain translations but I can't say for sure, I posted a thread to MZF about this last year:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=39000
AC & Jason,
I don't know if this is relevant but this bug sounds similar:
Can Boomark Backup save files in other directories (eg. files in the "chrome" subdirectory)?
How do you import these back into Firfox?
Chris,
Not individual files, but you can backup the whole chrome sub-directory by adding the word chrome to the Additional files section of the extension's options box.
Nihaochan,
1. Close Firefox.
2. Find you profile folder (see http://texturizer.net/firefox/edit.html#profile for instructions).
3. Go into the Backups sub-folder.
4. Find the backup from yesterday (today's backup will be corrupted so you can't use that), and copy it into the profile folder.
5. Delete the corrupted bookmarks.html file and rename the newly copied file to bookmarks.html.
Unfortunately this process is not currently automated since I can't find a way to automatically detect when the bookmarks file has been corrupted :-(
Seems to work (on first reboot after installing, anyhow) with the unofficial
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040602 Firefox/0.8.0+ (MMx)
(Listed at Burningedge now -- and from the thread about his builds there's a link to a thread for a version of Adblock patched to work with OSX and recent Firefox builds).
Now I have my two important extensions and am happy.
GREATLY appreciate the chance to add other files to the backup -- I've always wondered with OSX exactly WHAT should I be carrying over to a newly created Profile from an older one, I'll try the three you gave as examples for starters.
Having the bookmarks backup to a website via DAV would be nice. Any chance this could happen?
Jeremy,
I don't have any plans to do anything like that but you never know.
@ Jeremy
While in no way do I intend to detract from Pike's marvelous collection of extensions you may wish to check out:
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=15
I've tested backup via FTP. It's grand. It has an http option and something else I don't recal. I'm reinstalling FF9 fresh so I cannot look at the prefs screen for you right now.
@ Pike
Does your extension allow one to iteratively save bookmarks by date? ex: bookmark_040617.html ?
FourEightEight,
Good thinking, Torisugari is my extension hero :-)
p.s. no BB doesn't support saving by date. I could add the option if there was demand but I prefer to keep my extensions as simple as possible to avoid potential problems (or because I'm too lazy to add new features, I'll let you decide the real reason :-).
After loosing a few bookmarks a few days ago, I was quite happy when i found this little gen. There is, however, a small issue. It doesn't seem to back up any of the bookmarks that i have on my Bookmark Toolbar.
Any ideas on this?
ophiuchus,
You could try going to Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks then find and highlight the folder that stores your toolbar bookmarks and select View->Set as Bookmarks Toolbar Folder. I can't think of any other reason why they wouldn't show up.
I love this extension - it came in very useful when I was playing around with my bookmarks and deleted the ones I didn't want.
Now for a silly question. Is it possible to back stuff up to two locations. I have it set to backup to my local computer (for nice fast access), but I would also like it to backup to another server (incase HDD fries or something).
I do a weekly backup of all my important info, but want a more upto date copy of my bookmarks and such.
Mythos,
There's no way to do that at the moment.
Is it Firefox 0.9x compatible ??
GiZ,
Yes it is Firefox 0.9 compatible (as are all the extensions on this site).
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I'm having some problem installing your Bookmarkbackup 0.2 for Firefox keeps quitting during installation. I have alternatively downloaded the "bookmarkbackup.xpi" file, but drag dropping it onto Firefox also resulted in the program quitting. Creating a ../Profiles/user.js doesn't seemed to make a difference either. I am running OSX 10.2.8 & Firefox 0.8. Will you please advice or provide instructions for a stand-alone installation. Thanks!