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Subject: Re: Firefox & Migrating stored passwords
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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


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