When I upgraded to Firefox 7, all my add-ons (except for a few) were lost. Is there any way I can recover those add-ons (or at least find out what add-ons I had installed before the upgrade broke them)? I have tried upgrading to FF 7.01, and using the add-on recovery dialog, and neither of those have worked.
Firefox – How to recover lost add-ons in Firefox
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Best Answer
AFAIK, if the addons, and the folders they were in are gone, then there is no way to recover the addons you had. But i can suggest a way to prevent it from happening again.
In firefox, you can actually create "collections" of your favorite addons, so you can then install them elsewhere, or simply share them.
more info here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/
Basically, you are going to add any addon you want, and save them to a personal page, then you can make the collection public if you want.
There was an addon itself that let you automatically make collections of your currently installed addons, and it updated itself any time you installed a new addon. But i cannot find it. It may be no longer available.
Of course, this method will not save your addons preferences, is just a way to "bookmark" your addons, so you can access them any time later (from any computer).
If you want to backup the addons AND their preferences, then they are other ways to do it, like FEBE mentioned in a comment before.