Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 20:03:45 +0000 From: Jeremy Prior <jez@netcraft.com> To: Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox & Migrating stored passwords Message-ID: <1105041825.41819.13.camel@chagford.netcraft.com> In-Reply-To: <41DD6D89.9070300@redesjm.local> References: <1105026654.76427.42.camel@chagford.netcraft.com> <41DD6D89.9070300@redesjm.local>
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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
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