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How to backup Firefox on Windows 10 manually?

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Helpless_Quest
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Greetings everyone,

This is a incredibly important problem for me so I thought it deserves a new thread.

It seems like there are so many things that could go wrong.

I just want to make sure that when I do the backup that I actually do it correctly because I’m finding myself relying on Firefox more and more during my everyday life.

Thank you for any help!

Greetings everyone, This is a incredibly important problem for me so I thought it deserves a new thread. It seems like there are so many things that could go wrong. '''I just want to make sure that when I do the backup that I actually do it correctly because I’m finding myself relying on Firefox more and more during my everyday life.''' Thank you for any help!

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Terry
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Greetings. These articles contain information about your Firefox profile(s).

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile

cor-el
cor-el
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You can copy certain files with Firefox closed from the current profile folder to backup personal data. Note that best is to avoid restoring a full profile folder and only restore important files that are safe to restore/transfer.

  • bookmarks and history: places.sqlite
  • favicons: favicons.sqlite
  • bookmark backups: compressed .jsonlz4 JSON backups in the bookmarkbackups folder
  • cookies.sqlite for the Cookies
  • formhistory.sqlite for saved autocomplete Form Data
  • logins.json (encrypted logins) and key4.db (encryption key and primary password) for logins saved in the Password Manager
  • cert9.db for certificates stored in the Certificate Manager
  • persdict.dat for words added to the spell checker dictionary
  • permissions.sqlite for Permissions and possibly content-prefs.sqlite for other website specific data (Site Preferences)
  • sessionstore.jsonlz4 for open tabs and pinned tabs (see also the sessionstore-backups folder)