Jul 10, 2010

Browser Profile Backup

While I was trying to configure a specific user profile for a Selenium testing today I accidentally deleted my Firefox profile. At first I thought no big deal, my lap top (the machine I was using), is regularly backed up to an external USB drive attached to the docking station. Unfortunately for some strange reason I chose to exclude the $HOME/.mozilla/ directory that contains the profile.

I use Delicious for bookmarks so it mostly just means re-populating my tools bars and resetting passwords on rarely used sites if I can't remember them, not all that big of a deal really.

Still, I couldn't help but notice how much more I depend on the browser than desktop applications these days.