mozbackup

Maybe the wrong place to go.

Anyone use Mozbackup for Firefox or Thunderbird?

I have used it for three different PCs over the years without any problems.

On this new one I can't get it to run. When I try a popup appears for less than half a second. Then nothing happens.

This is a Lenovo Thinkpad running Win7 SP1 pro 31-bit.

The only way I can stop Mozbackup is through the task manager. When I attempt to end task I get a message that it is waiting for a response from me. Then I can end it anyway.

Thanks,
Richard

 

Are the other PCs running Windows 7 SP1 or newer?

 

I see the last stable version was in 2011 and then a beta in early May 2012.
Sources: http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mozbackup/files/

In 2012, Firefox was at version 12 or 13
Source: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
Since FF is now at version 38, there have been a lot of changes. Perhaps that 3 or 4 year old version simply can't work with the newest versions.

 

Mozbackup is independent of FF version.

In fact it won't start until FF and/or TB are shut down.

I am going to download the beta version and try it.

I am not able to ask the author. It's a long story if anyone cares.

Richard

 

Richard, I asked about the other PCs because the last stable version of Mozbackup was released a month after SP1 for Windows 7. That doesn't necessary mean it was updated for SP1. Hopefully the Beta version works. If I can find a similar program, I'll let you know.

 

Thanks for all of your help and suggestions.

There may be some software issues. I am going to leave mozbackup alone before I get an insane urge to try to fix this problem with my sledge hammer.

Richard

 

Interesting...

I searched, but the only backup programs I found are for either Firefox, or Thunderbird. Sorry I couldn't help. :-o

 

JoeRay12, thanks for posting that it still works on three newer OSes even though it appears it has been abandoned.