Where on my computer are my Mozilla Firefox extensions stored?

Question

Firefox is acting up. Every time I open it, it's generic and none of my settings (theme, etc.) are saved. I am going to delete firefox and reinstall to try and remedy, but before I do, I'd like to find and save my precious extensions so I put them back into the new (hopefully working) version of firefox.

Answer 1

You are better off saving your profile. You can use MozBackup to backup your entire Firefox profile. The Download link is:

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/download.php
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Question: What is a Firefox profie?

Answer: "Profile folder" -- by mozilla knowledge base (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile)

The Mozilla Suite, Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird each store a user's personal information such as bookmarks, e-mail, address books, extensions, and user preferences in a unique profile. The first time you start the Mozilla Suite (Firefox, Thunderbird or Sunbird), it will automatically create a default profile; additional profiles can be created using the Profile Manager. The settings which form a profile are stored in files within a special folder on your computer—this is the profile folder.

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Question: What is MozBackup?

Answer:

MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape profiles.

It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc. It's easy way to do Firefox backup, Thunderbird backup

Answer 2

If you have windows xp you can uninstall firefox by going to the control panel. And if you want to find where are the extensions and every file related to fire fox go to the program files folder!