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.
Comments
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One of my favorite extensions! I like the flexability and the features to backup my additional files. Great job!
To translate an Extension in several languages, there is a WEB site http://babelzilla.org/ to help us to do it and to find translators.
You will find for exemple, in the Tutorials how to translate the description :
http://www.babelzilla.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=83
is the response for localize the initial description for Moz family extensions.
Babelzilla translators are waiting for you to do translations. :P
Best Regards ;)
Ok -- so I've been EVERYwhere to try to figure this crazy thing out! Here's my problem:
On 4-19-06 (that was about 3 days ago), I DLed some stupid icon smilie program to my toolbar in Mozilla FireFox -- which was stupid, I know -- but I don't think it really did anything. Anyways -- I deleted it later that night because I decided it didn't have what I wanted. Right before I went to bed, I closed out FireFox and hit shut down -- well, accidently FireFox stalled and Windows 98 (boo -- I know) shut down the computer before FireFox completely closed out.
Bad move -- totally -- I found that out the next day when I started the computer and went to FireFox -- opened it up -- and BAM! No bookmarks. Hooray! -- I thought...well, not really -- I nearly cried because I'm a worrier and a stresser and I had already had a horrible day with exams, projects, work, finals coming up, blah blah blah -- anyways I freaked out and started searching the web for solutions.
So far -- nothing has worked. A new profile wasn't made -- the default was in there and was the only one -- BROWSER. I looked around for files to recover or anything that would savor my hard work of bookmarks, as it had much of my school information needed for reports, projects, and various other things.
Why can't I just go to the backup folders you may ask? Well, problem is -- I am running Mozilla FireFox 1.0.7 (is it just me or do I seem to be clearly outdated?).
I've tried several things and am at a complete loss here. I've been to several sites -- stayed up all last now and now (this night) trying to find ways to undo my dumb mistake. Any suggestions?
I would be most appreciative if you could give me some pointers or point me in some sort of a direction.
Thanks!
@angelbabycakes,
Have you read the following page? It contains everything known about recovering bookmarks, if nothing there helps then there's probably not much you can do.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Lost_bookmarks
Also make sure you've found the right profile, a common mistake is to think that the following is your profile:
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile
but it's not, your real profile should be at:
C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
If you need help with specific parts of the lost bookmarks page please let me know.
Unfortunately -- I've looked all through that page and tried all of those suggestions. My last resort is buying an undelete program (since none of the free ones offer enough bytes to support the bookmarks that might have been lost -- most of the free ones only support 64K), but I'm skeptical about buying one, as I do not know if it would be a wise decision.
Most of the suggestions on the lost bookmarks that offer great solutions are for an updated version of FireFox. If I had updated, I would have had the history/backup bookmarks and my troubles would be solved. Unfortunately, I didn't upgrade and now am paying the price, apparently -- lol.
If you can think of anything else, I'd be most appreciative to any suggestions. What do you think about buying an undelete program? Do you think it would work?
@angelbabycakes
I'm afraid I don't know anything about undelete software so I can't advise you. Sorry I haven't been very helpful. :-(
Please never install any application, write any information or recover deleted files on the same logical disk where the deleted files are located.
Try them.
http://www.geocities.jp/br_kato/
http://officerecovery.com/freeundelete/
http://www.brothersoft.com/file_disk_management/backup/freeundelete_32855.html
Now is too late - but pleaze learn for the future and backup EVERY important outside of your computer on CD/DVD.
If You do this on DVD - RW,or better DVD RAM it would'nt cost the world. :)
good luck
Remember, if you back stuff up on read-only media, when you get it off the disc, everything will be read-only. You can fix that by putting stuff in ZIP files first.
Always same problem - on new OS install followed by new Firefox install, I'll set bookmarks backup to the backup folder and it always overwrite _my_ backups to something else. Whenever I exit FF, my own backup file gets reduced from about 227 kb to 59 kb. In other words, I have to fight for the new install to accept the backup from a previous installation. How can I get around this? I should just be able to point it to the folder and that's it - bookmarks show up properly.
Here's hoping someone has figured this out. It usually takes me a couple of days of constantly putting a backup copy into the current day's folder. <sigh>
@Hypatia
Are you following the instructions at the top of this page (in Frequently Asked Questions #1)? Because it sounds like you're not but I can't be sure.
Having this useful extension, it's big pity to stay without extension mails and addressbook backup.
Think about it.
Hi,
The extension's description is not localizable, could you fix it ?
just to add a line in "bookmarkbackup.js" file :
pref("extensions.{3474c305-9dad-11d8-9207-00055d74c2e4}.description", "chrome://bookmarkbackup/locale/bookmarkbackup.properties");
AND
to add a line in "bookmarkbackup.properties" file of all Locales :
extensions.{3474c305-9dad-11d8-9207-00055d74c2e4}.description= The extension's description translated
Thanks
zoriv:
See http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=378216 . Well, actually, most of that thread doesn't really matter. You can just open up the XPI, add Thunderbird to install.rdf*, install it and add what you want to back up to the 'other files' box.
* To do that, just copy and paste the "<em:targetApplication> ... </em:targetApplication>" section, and change the <em:id> in the second copy to {3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}.
F---in' brilliant!
Installed 1.4.2a2 in 1.5.0.5, Bon Echo 2.0a1 Branch, and Trunk builds. The settings migrated with no problems, it's working fine on all 3 builds - including search plugin backup. I have no idea how to go about trying to break the options box, though...
I've just uploaded a new alpha, there are no code changes from alpha 2, it just adds the new files from Fx 2.0 to the backup groups (Session Store, Personal Dictionary and Web App Storage).
http://www.pikey.me.uk/mozilla/test/bb_042a3.xpi
p.s. Sorry for disabling the comment system but the comment spam was getting insane. :(
Thanks to everyone who helped test and localise Bookmark Backup 0.4.2, your help is much appreciated.
p.s. I've reopened comments for the moment in case people want to report bugs, hopefully the spammers have moved on. :)
Compatibility with FF 2.0???
This is a great program!!!!
I still have 3.1 installed; i didnt know there was an update until just now. At any rate, when FF checks for an update, it doesnt find the 0.4.2, can this be changed so it will automatically find the update? You may wish to also let people know that in order for FF to know that you installed a new version, uninstall the old first. Thanks.
Andrew
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