by cbaker_admin » Sun Aug 20, 2017 5:37 pm
You can always backup your by copying it to a safe location, but it's an all-or-nothing proposition. And restoring is also an all-or-none situation. You can't (at least not easily) restore just things like bookmarks, cookies, username/passwords, etc. without knowing exactly what to copy over. And you can't really pick and choose individual extensions to restore. That's why I created FEBE in the first place - the ability to have total control and flexibility in keeping your Fx running in case of crashes and/or accidental deletion of critical parts of the browser.
Gone are the glory days when Fx was a power-users browser (from the release of v4 up to the time landed in v28). Its been downhill ever since. For the life of me, I cannot figure out what possessed Mozilla to start their road to ruin by deprecating the only real thing that made Firefox stand out - the ability to install powerful extensions that transformed the browser into something users really wanted. Near complete individual customization. WebExtensions is very restrictive in what it can do. I'm sure that many useful add-ons can be written with it, but none of them can ever do what we could do with XUL and XPCOM.
As thousands of others have pointed out, why does Fx want to be a Chrome clone? If we wanted Chrome we would simply install it instead of some wannabe copycat.
Chuck