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Date:      Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:23:31 +0100
From:      Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox & Migrating stored passwords
Message-ID:  <41DDBA63.6030904@redesjm.local>
In-Reply-To: <41DDB6F2.1030103@FreeBSD.org>
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Adam Weinberger escribió:

> Jeremy Prior wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> I've never lost my saved passwords on a reinstall or upgrade.
>
> # Adam
>
>
Sorry, I get confused by old notes.
This has never implemented and abandoned.

The files are encripted only after user request and use of a selected 
master password.

--
  josemi



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