Topic: Mozilla a question

[Simon]

Don't listen to her, Dave, she's just jealous because she's still using an inferior browser.

I'm not quite sure what your question referred to, but if you're talking about Plugins and Extensions, I think you have to get thr right one, as some of those for Mozilla are not compatible with Firefox, and vice-versa.  If you're talking generally, there's not a lot of difference between the two browsers, but the Mozilla Suite has a built in e-mail client and HTML editor, and has more Extensions available, I think.

[Tony]

Oh another of my favorite plugins Dave http://backup.jasnapaka.com/ Mozbackup

It does as it says, backs up all your moz settings. If I reinstall C:Drive from a saved image, my saved email and bookmarks etc will only be as upto date as the date of the saved image. But if I run this little prog prior to reimaging C:Drive, and save the backup file as per the date, to a partition other than C:Drive. After reimaging I just run the prog again, but this time click "restore" instead of "backup" and all my emails etc are bang up to date.

I back up weekly as a rule, you never know when things may go tits up with PC's

 

[Simon]

Funnily enough, I tried that back up tool some time ago, and couldn't get it to work, so have done it manually ever since.  

[Tony]

It worked OK for me Simon, but then I noticed this week on attempting a restore, it did not. It did not work with the latest version of Mozilla, so I downloaded the lates version of Mozbackup, and its fine.

Like you say Simon, you can do it manually, by just copying the Mozzila  folder in "Application Data" But as that is a hidden file some peeps may prefer to just hit a Mozbackup icon on their desktop.

[Simon]

Tony,  I don't think you can restore a back up from one version of Moz, to a newer version, which is, thinking about it, what I was trying to do.  It's always useful to do a complete manual back up of your Profile, as I think there are bits that the back up utility doesn't save, i.e. the Prefs file.  

[daveeb]

I tried that plugin site and its great.  My original problem was that i didnt always know what the plugin actually was.  I would access a particular site and be told that a plugin needed to be downloaded then the plugin finder service would usually fail to locate it  

anyhow i'm more than happy with firefox + occasional ieview  

ps quit takin' the pizza sandra  

[Simon]

 Dave!  Glad you found it useful.