Free, open source program backs up browsers, email, more

Free, open source program backs up browsers, email, more

by Lee Mathews Mar 30th 2009

In need of a simple way to back up your browser and email profiles? It doesn't get much easier for Windows users than MailBrowserBackup.

Check the boxes, click backup, and choose a destination. That's it. The process itself is equally speedy and dumps each program's data to a separate file. Currently, MBB handles Firefox, Chrome, Iron, Thunderbird, and FileZilla.

MBB is also open source, completely portable, and exactly the kind of tool any good USB toolkit needs, though you might want to wait until next version to download it. Why?

This is the developer's first release, and some of the programs listed aren't supported yet (Opera, Safari, IE, Windows Mail, Incedimail, and eMule). They'll be available in v0.2, which he will also be porting to Linux.

Right now, it's great for systems like my home computers - which are running Firefox and Chrome. My customers, however, are mainly using Internet Explorer and Windows Mail, so for now I'll be sticking with KLS Mail Backup on my workbench.

Go there...

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/03/30/free-open-source-program-backs-up-browsers-email-more/

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