{"id":655,"date":"2008-03-28T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T23:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/computers-how-to\/saving-hours-customizing-firefox\/"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:37:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:37:14","slug":"saving-hours-customizing-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/computers-how-to\/saving-hours-customizing-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Hours Customizing Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many add-ons, toolbars, bookmarks, plugins, and other tweaks have you made to your default Firefox installation?  If you&#8217;re a specialty user, you may have several dozen add ons, and in my own case, I&#8217;ve got 27 separate Firefox extensions alone, (which I now know because I just counted them).<\/p>\n<p>With all of those, and with the the custom toolbar and bookmark options I&#8217;ve managed to tweak, recreating what I&#8217;ve &#8220;created&#8221; over time with my Firefox is just not something that could be done without a monumental effort.  Just like Windows, in order to to do my job,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/computers-how-to\/session-manager-what-a-timesaver\/\" target=\"_blank\">I must have certain plug ins<\/a>, just as surely as I need Outlook, Word, and Excel.<\/p>\n<p>After my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/computers-how-to\/stump-the-geek-whats-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\">monumental computer problems Wednesday night<\/a>, and reinstalling Windows on Thursday, adding Firefox was one of the first things I did. Well I&#8217;m here to tell ya about one <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/2109\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Firefox add on that <\/strong><strong>I would have been lost without, called FEBE<\/strong><\/a><strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FEBE<\/strong><br \/>\nEach night for the past year, <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/2109\" target=\"_blank\">FEBE<\/a> has been backing up all of of my Firefox bookmarks, all of my plugins, extensions, add-ons, and web browsing preferences, my cookies,  muy usernames, my passwords, and anything else at all that has been &#8220;personalized&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, using <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/2109\" target=\"_blank\">FEBE<\/a>, in <strong>under three minutes<\/strong>, I was able to download the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/2109\" target=\"_blank\">FEBE<\/a> plugin, and restore my previous profile, saving me literally hours of tweaking and fine tuning.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, from simply looking up website user names and passwords, to setting up a custom toolbar with my desired buttons &amp; folders for webhosting accounts and other logins, it could be over a dozen hours to re-do, and I STILL likely wouldn&#8217;t likely have gotten it complete.<\/p>\n<p>Another great thing about <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/2109\" target=\"_blank\">FEBE<\/a> is that I can export my user profile, and then install the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/2109\" target=\"_blank\">FEBE<\/a> add on to another Firefox installation on my laptop, or any other pc, then importing &#8220;My&#8221; Firefox preferences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/2109\" target=\"_blank\">FEBE<\/a> saved me SO MUCH TIME just now, that I was able to write this post, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=cbaker%40customsoftwareconsult%2ecom&amp;item_name=CSC%20Firefox%20Extension%20Development&amp;item_number=%2e99&amp;buyer_credit_promo_code=&amp;buyer_credit_product_category=&amp;buyer_credit_shipping_method=&amp;buyer_credit_user_address_change=&amp;amount=0%2e99&amp;no_shipping=0&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;lc=US&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\">make a donation to their cause<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many add-ons, toolbars, bookmarks, plugins, and other tweaks have you made to your default Firefox installation? 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