Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:55:37 +0100 From: Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> To: Jeremy Prior <jez@netcraft.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox & Migrating stored passwords Message-ID: <41DD6D89.9070300@redesjm.local> In-Reply-To: <1105026654.76427.42.camel@chagford.netcraft.com> References: <1105026654.76427.42.camel@chagford.netcraft.com>
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Jeremy Prior escribió: >I've just built and installed Firefox-1.0_7,1 on my FreeBSD-5.3 (STABLE) >system: seems to work great - Good work! > >The only main issue that I have with it is the fact that when I imported >my Mozilla settings, the cookies and bookmarks transferred fine, but >none of the stored passwords did. (Oddly enough, the list of sites that >shouldn't be saved _did_ transfer). > >Is this a known issue? I've got ~50 saved passwords and I wouldn't want >to have to migrate these by hand... > >Cheers, >jez > > 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 -- josemi
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