February 21st, 2012· For Fx 4.0.* - 10.*
· FEBE ignore list now correctly handles global and proxy addons
February 21st, 2012· For Fx 4.0.* - 10.*
· Fix Quick Backup
· Updated locales
June 8th, 2010· Changed: No longer uses enablePrivilege code (Support being removed from Firefox)
· Fixed: Box.net online restore
June 8th, 2010· Fixed: Now uses secure (https) protocol for Box.net interface for both paid and free accounts
· Changed: Minor cosmetic changes to UI
· Fixed: Outdated links
· Fixed: Minor edits that do not affect functionality
· For Fx 3.0.* - 3.7a4pre
March 17th, 2010· Fixed: Missing BoxNet.html file
· Fixed: Box.net timestamp folders now populate correctly.
· Fixed: Box.net upload window correctly obeys "Display upload progress window?" option when initiating upload from toolbar menu.
· Fixed: Option window now shows properly in Minefield 3.7 nightlies.
· For Fx 3.0.* - Minefiled 3.7a1pre
March 17th, 2010· Fixed: Statusbar icon from appearing when multiple windows are open (and "Hide statusbar icons" option is set)
· Fixed: Results report now appears in controlling window instead of the most current window.
· New: Added user-defined Box.net backup root directory
· New: Added timestamped directory option for Box.net uploads
July 30th, 2009· New: Restore profile function re-written. Now includes the option to create a new profile (in the Fx default directory) to expedite full profile restores. Also allows profile restores to non-default locations.
· New: Option to restart Firefox with the newly restored profile (or any selected profile for that matter)
· New: Added "Total processing time:" to results page. Displays the number of seconds the backup took to perform.
· New: "Verify extensions" function now offers a "Strict" and "Lenient" mode. "Lenient" mode allows extensions with malformed email format ids.
· New: Option to prompt before backup on startup/shutdown
· Fixed: "Run-away" backups when no scheduled backup was set
· Changed: More robust error trapping
· New: Bookmarks are now backed up in .json and/or .html format. Favicons are included in .html backup.
· New: Option to disable missed scheduled backup notification
· New: Option for results page format - "Detail" or "Summary"
· Fixed: "Include FEBE with backup" option. It now works again.
· New: Option to display Box.net upload window
· New: Option to display message alerts as "Sliders" or "Standard"
· Fixed: Upgraded sounds from 88kbps mono to 1411kbps stereo. Now works on Vista. (These sound files are much larger, unfortunately, and account for the substantial increase in the installable .xpi file.)
· Changed: Scheduled backup warning now occurs one minute before backup starts.
· New: FEBE scheduled backups now work correctly when more than one browser window is opened. One window is assigned as the "controller" and passes the torch when closed.
· Other minor bug fixes
February 17th, 2009· Fixed: "Invalid date" message when scheduled backup was missed.
· Fixed(?): Yet another attempt to fix the "progress window not closing" problem.
· Fixed: Restore extensions problem when backup destination directory contained certain characters (e.g., "#").
· Changed: If "Include a copy of FEBE with backup" is checked, only one copy will get backed up. In other words, if "Backup extensions" is checked for a selective backup, FEBE already gets backed up as it is an extension like all the others. No reason to back it up twice.
· Fixed: Modal windows on Mac do not display properly. I just made them non-modal where necessary.
· New: Added "Both" and "Alternate" backup types in addition to "Full profile" and "Selective".
· Fixed: Scheduled backup only runs in the most current window when more than one window is open.
· New: Clicking statusbar icon gives more information and option to backup now.
· Fixed: Security updates
· New: Added extension/theme descriptions to results page.
· Known issues: Only en-US locales are complete at this time - all other locales contain some English strings. Beta3 will be updated as other locales become available.
February 16th, 2009· Security update
September 25th, 2008· Fixed: Cookies with initial dot in host name now restore correctly.
· Fixed: Invalid Box.net username/password does not generate FEBE crashing error.
· Changed: Locales updated.
September 16th, 2008· Fixed: Username/password containing international characters will now backup/restore (Mozilla bug 439711)
September 3rd, 2008· Fixed: Confirm dialog windows not appearing under some conditions.
· Fixed: No results report when "Display progress window" option not checked.
· Fixed: Certain options not enabled/disabled when supposed to.
· Fixed: Box.net interface is more stable
· Fixed: Error message properly displayed when attempting to restore a profile when only one profile exists.
· Fixed: QuickBackup not recognizing unselected extensions after "Select all" and unchecking some items.
· Fixed: Cookie backup not getting some properties correctly
August 15th, 2008· FEBE 6.0 is for Firefox 3.0 and above only. For Firefox 2.0, use FEBE 5.0.
February 8th, 2008· Fixes leap year problem in monthly scheduled backups.
October 25th, 2007· contains an important bug fix that affected some items including bookmarks restore, preferences and cookies backup.