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3) Pale Moon has backup software. Firefox has only Mozbackup, which works well, but isn't Mozilla Foundation software.

No, Firefox also has FEBE - an arguably superior backup solution than Mozbackup.

3) Pale Moon has backup software. Firefox has only Mozbackup, which works well, but isn't Mozilla Foundation software.

No, Firefox also has FEBE - an arguably superior backup solution than Mozbackup.

The Pale Moon browser is a better version of Firefox. Pale Moon appears to have better management than the Mozilla Foundation gives Firefox.

Pale Moon Windows version
Pale Moon Linux version

Here are some of the advantages:

1) Pale Moon has a 64-bit version. Firefox doesn't. The 64-bit Pale Moon uses the Firefox add-ons; there are no problems except with some unusual add-ons.

2) The "Find in page" is better in Pale Moon. In Firefox the "Find in page" field is on the left of the screen and the "Highlight All" and "Match Case" buttons are on the right. In Pale Moon they are together so that you immediately see if something is chosen from a former search.

3) Pale Moon has backup software. Firefox has only Mozbackup, which works well, but isn't Mozilla Foundation software.

4) Pale Moon is said to be more stable than Firefox. The memory-hogging flaws in Firefox are so widely acknowledged that there are add-ons for re-starting Firefox: Firefox Re-start Add-ons. I use Restartless Restart.

5) Pale Moon is completely independent of the forces that guide Firefox. Pale Moon is in no way associated with Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Foundation seems to feel forced to change Firefox in ways most users don't want.

Migration tool: Pale Moon has a profile migration tool.

it was never clear to me how to backup msgs

MozBackup is the best way. Or switch to an IMAP server where the server admins are backing up the mailbox files nightly. Or backup your Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Thunderbird folder (on WinXP).

As for controlling HTML vs plain text... TB3 is slightly better then TB2, but still gets confused. For my primary account, I compose in HTML. However, if the message contains no special formatting, TB will always send the message as plain text. Which has a few problems of its own.

You can also somewhat force the issue by going to the Options, Format when composing the email. Unless you forgot and started the message in an account where you told TB to compose in plain text. At that point, you're screwed and can't toggle the compose window into HTML mode.

Basically, that issue boils down to a structural design issue inside the compose window. The code is written in such a way that you can't switch modes - at least not until they rewrite the entire compose window code. (Rumored for TB v4.)

Then there's also the ability to tell TB on a contact-by-contact basis that a particular recipient only wants plain text.

I uninstalled FF2 and then installed FF3 and all of my cookies, passwords, etc. were still intact. Most of my extensions and themes were updated to work with FF3.

If you're paranoid and using Windows, you could also back up your profile with MozBackup.

Try this-http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/.I run it once a week and have never had to worry about screwy updates hosing my settings.It says it doesn't promise extensions backup to work but with the basics(adblock,flashblock,noscript,downloadhelper,imacros) I've not hard a problem yet,though YMMV.

Just use MozBackup to backup and restore. Works with Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape.

It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc.

Been using it for ages, it's one of the handiest tools I've got.

Cheers!

That works. Or you can use MozBackup: http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

Until they sort it out, this works well:

http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

Try MozBackup. It's not an extension and it's Windows only. But it's close.

You can do some forced copying to get Tbird to read it (they use the same format for messages and everything, but strangely know very little about each other). Involves copying the extensionless files over then trying to merge prefs.js manually.

If you run Windows, you can try using MozBackup to get around it.

If you're paranoid (like me), just get Mozbackup. It will make a backup file of your Thunderbird/Firefox/Mozilla profiles (and mail). I've had no problem with it.

Don't want to lose your growing Firefox database when you upgrade?

On Windows machines you can use a utility to backup your profile called, MozBackup. Test it out a few times and then try upgrading.

Saves your backup to another file and can import that backup into another installation. Let's you take your passwords and all that with you.

Mozilla Backup is what you need. It can be used to easily transfer a profile from one machine to another. (Supports Firefox, Thunderbird, and Mozilla)

If you're willing to wait until it's caught up to the new Mozilla version (and new Firefox/Thunderbird if needed), you could always try MozBackup...

I don't know if it currently works with 0.9RC/0.9, although i expect a new version that does will be out soon if needed, but i use MozBackup for backing up Firefox and Thunderbird.

You can back-up everything incl Email and stuff