Firefox & Migrating stored passwords

Jose M Rodriguez josemi at freebsd.jazztel.es
Thu Jan 6 14:43:40 PST 2005


Jeremy Prior escribió:

>On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 17:55 +0100, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
>  
>
>>seems that, right now, firefox encript this information with keys 
>>generated in the build, so you can not expect that this may survive to a 
>>simple portupgrade or reinstall
>>    
>>
>
>Thanks for this - I'm glad you told me rather than me finding this out
>the next time I rebuilt it! :-)
>
>If saved passwords won't survive a reinstall then I'm not going to be
>able to switch to firefox as my primary browser just yet.  Ho hum.
>
>Thanks again,
>jez
>  
>
Sorry for my previous mail.  This is not true.

I just made a quick import test and this work great. 
(mozilla-1.7.5->firefox-1.0)

Just sure that you doesn't have any master password on use in mozilla 
before import and go to <File> <Import>.

--
  josemi


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