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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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