{"id":61,"date":"2008-07-08T13:59:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T11:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2021-09-01T17:26:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T15:26:32","slug":"migrate-saved-passwords-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/migrate-saved-passwords-in-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrate saved passwords in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are like me and often use the &#8220;Save password&#8221; feature of Firefox because you can&#8217;t remember all the passwords you use for different web sites, and then suddenly have to setup a &#8220;fresh&#8221; Firefox on a new box, you need <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/2848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Password Exporter<\/a>, an invaluable Firefox extension that plugs into the &#8220;Security&#8221; page of Firefox&#8217; options dialog.<\/p>\n<p>It allows you to export the saved passwords on one machine, then to re-import them on a target machine.<\/p>\n<p>This unfortunately only worked in part for me. Login credentials that applied to the same server, but to different realms obviously failed to be imported. I don&#8217;t know exactly why this is, but it made the hole story pretty useless for me. I ended up copying <code>key3.db<\/code> and <code>signons3.txt<\/code> manually from the Windoze box to the Mac. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are like me and often use the &#8220;Save password&#8221; feature of Firefox because you can&#8217;t remember all the passwords you use for different web sites, and then suddenly have to setup a &#8220;fresh&#8221; Firefox on a new box, you need Password Exporter, an invaluable Firefox extension that plugs into the &#8220;Security&#8221; page of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}