Backup your Firefox profile and easy restore

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Your Firefox profile contains all your settings and after a while you have customized to your liking, saved a bunch of passwords and now you maybe want to reinstall your machine/migrate the profile to another computer, here's what to do.

It's saved in the Application Data (on windows) map under Mozilla - Firefox - Profile. To easy access that you can hit Win - R and enter %appdata%

Now before you close Firefox in order to copy what you've done clean out temporary data, hit Ctrl - Shift - Del.

Now close Firefox and either just copy your Mozilla folder (in App Data) or if you have WinRAR right-click on it and choose under WinRAR - Add to "...rar" for a sfer and easier file to move (slow to transfer to usb with many small files, a big chunck is faster).

The easy deploy is to make a SFX from the .rar archive and add some options to it.

Open your archive in WinRAR and press SFX in the toolbar then click Comment and copy'n'paste

	   ;The comment below contains SFX script commands

				   Path=%appdata%
				   SavePath
				   Setup="%programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe"
				   Presetup=taskkill /IM firefox.exe && ren "%appdata%\Mozilla" "Mozilla.%date%.OLD"

You can make it unattended by adding but I dont use it because it's easy to accidentally run it.

Silent=1