Firefox's Saved Passwords

[Bill Perkins]

John Summerfied wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>> On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 22:33 -0500, Bill Perkins wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Ok, I found signons.txt, and copied it to the new .mozilla directory,
>>> in the equivalent spot. It seems I've still got something missing,
>>> though, as after copying and bringing up firefox, it still doesn't
>>> know about the saved passwords. Any idea on what switch I should flip
>>> in about:config or wherever to get it to realize there is new data in
>>> there?
>>
>>
>> How about saving some new passwords at some site, checking for where
>> it's now saving that data, and substituting your old file for the recent
>> one.
>>
> It's perfectly possible the format has changed. This _must_ happen when 
> functionality is extended.
> 
> 
> 
Looks like the format has changed, but the hash used may be combined 
with that funky xxxxxxxx.default directory everything lands in, which is 
combined with profiles.ini... what a mess! I suppose there are good 
reasons to be doing things this way... maybe if I take the old 
profiles.ini, and the old .default directory name, and plunk them into 
.mozilla/firefox/, I can get everything back. Apparently, when I fired 
up firefox 1.5.0.1, _something_ got changed in the profile directory 
which causes a panic in firefox 1.0.7

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