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Brian Boatright
Brian Boatright

Reputation: 36764

How can you export the saved username and passwords in FireFox 2?

I need to reformat my machine but I have so many user/passwords stored in FF2 that I just keep putting it off. Yes I know about backing up the entire profile and restoring it. But for some reason my profile has many issues and I want to start fresh with that as well.

Are the username and passwords stored in a text file or is there some way to export them and import after I reformat?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 10287

Answers (6)

Peter Hoffmann
Peter Hoffmann

Reputation: 58674

There is a Firefox add-on called Password Exporter. It can export to XML or CSV files that can be imported in another browser or computer.

Upvotes: 3

Monika Verma
Monika Verma

Reputation: 106

You can use third party tools (like PasswordFox) available to export saved passwords from Firefox but many people don’t believe in third party tools because this is the matter of high security so, it is better to use Firefox add-on rather than third party tool.

Password Exporter Firefox extension is the best solution to export and import saved passwords safely and quickly. You can install Password Exporter from below URL.

http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/password-exporter and see the full documentation of installation and uses.

Upvotes: 0

user4210
user4210

Reputation:

I've had luck just copying signons2.txt and key3.db over from one profile to another. See also the documentation on MozillaZine.

Upvotes: 5

Cees Meijer
Cees Meijer

Reputation: 782

You can use the Foxmarks plugin. This exports to XML or CSV format. I used it a week ago and it works really fine.

Upvotes: 2

Matt Bishop
Matt Bishop

Reputation: 1487

Alas, this won't solve the re-importing problem, but check out http://wejn.org/stuff/moz-export.html

They have a single html page with a small javascript section that exports your passwords. Save the html to your desktop, read through to make sure it's not evil, open the page in FF, save the results.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but I'm not sure I'd trust a password-exporting extension...

Upvotes: 0

Michael Haren
Michael Haren

Reputation: 108276

This extension will do it for you:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2848

Upvotes: 2

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