Create Firefox backup - how to back up your data

It's worth to create a Firefox backup regularly to save your Firefox data and settings. This way you will always have all bookmarks, saved passwords and your profile at hand. This is advantageous, for example, if you move to another PC with your browser.

How to create a backup of your Firefox data

Better create one backup too many than face the loss of your data.

1. All bookmarks, saved passwords and other data and settings can be found in a special folder on your PC. This is called "Profiles." You can find it in C:\User\<Your Username>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox.
2. You can also find the folder directly through Firefox by searching for it from the Firefox address bar. This is usually the faster way.
3. To do this, enter the search term about:support and go under "Profile Folders" to "Show Folder".
4. To back up your data, copy the folder "Profiles" to an external backup, for example, a USB stick or an external hard drive that you have connected to the PC in advance.

An additional way to secure your data offer so-called clouds. So you can upload your folder to a cloud of your choice.

This is why you should back up your data

A data backup is useful for various reasons. First of all, surfing the Internet poses a danger in itself, against which you can protect yourself with a firewall, but something can still happen at any time, so formatting your hard drive is unavoidable. In addition, it is possible that the built-in hardware of your PC fails and the data is then lost.