racoma.com.phJ. Angelo Racoma on technology, economics, writing, problogging, and getting things done

One of my latest posts at ForeverGeek: duplicating your Firefox profile.

If you use several computers, then you’re likely familiar with the frustration of having to re-input your settings, passwords, bookmarks, history, extensions, and form auto-fill information into your new Firefox installation everytime you re-install your operating system, or get a new computer altogether (lucky you!). I recently got my hands on yet another extra laptop, and I thought of transferring my profile from one of my existing systems. Yes, you can download software that automatically does the backup and restoring for you, but where’s the geekiness in that? Real geeks do it manually–which is perhaps the most straightforward way, anyway.

Do check it out if you run several computers and you’d like to sync–or at least copy–your bookmarks, history, extensions, and passwords across computers. This can be very useful, say, you want quick access to your sites on both your home and office computers.

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