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If you have ever been through a Firefox Profile rebuild, you know how difficult and time-consuming it can be. That is why I use the Firefox FEBE Backup Extension, which will back up your profile data to a special folder. I then copy or move the FEBE Backup Folder to another partition or another drive. (A Flash Drive will also suffice.) When completely deleting Firefox with Revo Uninstaller, the entire Profile, or the parts you choose (such as Extensions only, or just a few Extensions at a time), can be restored from the FEBE Backup in just one or a few operations. Anyway, the old profile data are there in one place, so you do not have to jump through hoops to do the Firefox restoration.

I’m using Mozbackup to save the data after I get Firefox like I want it, which restores profiles, settings, extensions & all. Through the use of a “Dropbox” I can even restore profiles & all from another machine. It did take me some time this time, but the Mozbackup restore from another (working) machine, didn’t do it this time, so I knew that there was something independent somehow. I suspect, but could not probe that use of the FEBE Backup Extension would not have straightened it out, especially if I had backed up a corrupted profile.

I open a blank tab first, then type in the about:config. It will give you a warning, but you can bypass it. At the top set the filter to search. Among other things you will see browser.search.openintab on the left. Right click, & select toggle so the Boolean switches to True

Problem was fixed by completely blowing away Firefox & all profiles (I believe it was some corruption in all of them), then reinstalling FF & all extensions using an Infolister profile to know what extensions it needed. I used Revouninstaller for the “blow away” task, which deleted registry entries & local storage including the profile. I had to do some about:config work to customize the search to always open in new tab (I don’t know why it is not the default).

Hi Loungers, I am thinking of keeping IE8 on my PC (Win7 HPrem 32 bit) and using the portable version of Firefox. My reason is, at the moment IE8 has been removed/disabled (only possible if using Win7) and only using FF. As I also use Secunia PSI, but it only works correctly with IE8 but shows as insecure.
As to FF Portable, its only known drawback is slow to start but then runs excellently.
If you can add any PROS or CONS to my intended set up please do.

I use both IE8 & the standard version of Firefox, plus PSI…the PSI does check FF for validity. I always use both, with Firefox the default. I have learned to check the 2 against each other, to be sure both are working correctly—recently for a while FF did not honor JavaScript on 1 machine, while on 2 others, slide shows did not work.

It’s back to not-working, this time, just blinks at me. It is not site-specific, I have tried tricks with the security system (Zonealarm, Symantec EndPoint Antivirus, Windows 7 Firewall, etc.) I have tried tricks with the Firefox installation, adding new profiles, etc. On the same system, with all security enabled, it works in IE8, so it’s not the level of JavaScript installed (I have that monitored with the Secunia PSI). This definitely points to Firefox…I have posted on the Firefox forums, but the only question was “Do I have the NoScript extension installed—which I do not).

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