Comments on: How to Backup and Restore Firefox Profile On Linux

By: FeedbackReporter

FeedbackReporter — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:07:40 +0000

Open FF, open the menu -> help -> more information for error finding (I don't know what it is named in English, I use a different language) and find your actual profile folder in the table below.

/home/$user/.mozilla/firefox/$somewierdstuff

You only have to copy $somewierdstuff somewhere, not the whole Mozilla folder. I collected 6 profiles over the past 2 years, each of it 100 MB worth. Nobody needs those old profiles.

By: Art McTeagle

Art McTeagle — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 02:49:08 +0000

In reply to richardstevenhack.

So true! Deja Dup has failed me during a critical restore op. Luckily, I had also backed up my entire data (normal copying) to another external drive. Saved my bacon. Though I was in a cold sweat when it happened 😉

I can’t emphasize how important B.Ups are and everyone should have a plan, because that day will come, sooner or later…

By: cmcanulty

cmcanulty — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 11:32:55 +0000

my terminal always opens with

cmcanulty@ubuntu1:~$ and I can’t backspace or delete it out

By: Divine

Divine — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 11:05:15 +0000

In reply to cmcanulty.

Make sure you’re in the right directory, don’t include the dollar sign in your commands, and enter them one by one.

By: cmcanulty

cmcanulty — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 10:36:30 +0000

I immediately get an error in xubuntu 18.04

cmcanulty@ubuntu1:~$ cd ~/.mozilla cmcanulty@ubuntu1:~/.mozilla$ tar -jcvf firefox-browser-profile.tar.bz2 .mozillatar: .mozilla: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

By: richardstevenhack

richardstevenhack — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 21:33:43 +0000

One can, of course, simply copy the Firefox profile to anywhere in the file system, and subsequently back it up in normal backup operations. I don’t compress or encrypt ANYTHING in a backup because quite frankly I do not trust either compression or encryption algorithms to be coded properly by some unknown programmer of unknown capability. I have heard and read about both types of algorithms being corrupted and failing during restore or even normal operations and believe it is foolish to use them in critical backups.