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Importing Saved Firefox Passwords From Windows to Ubuntu

I had all my passwords saved in Firefox on Windows XP, I wanted them in Firefox on Ubuntu.
I could have just wrote them down by logging into Windows and using the show password option in Firefox, but that's too much work and I couldn't be bothered so I did it another way.
No idea if this is the best or safest way, but it was the easiest for me.

Using Ubuntu I browsed to

Documents and Settings/[WindowsUSERNAME]/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default

and copied key3.db and signons.sqlite

Then pasted them into

/home/[UbuntuUSERNAME]/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default

And now my saved passwords are working in Firefox on Ubuntu.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous25/9/13 19:40

    i tried the same procedure, but it isn't working for me. i just restarted firefox, don't think we need to restart our system, do we?

    from windows 7 to ubuntu

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