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Moving your Firefox passwords from one profile to another

If you create a new profile in Firefox (or maybe you upgraded from 1.x to 2.0), and you want to copy your saved usernames and passwords from one profile to another, here's what to do:

1. Start Firefox (using the profile you want to move passwords to
2. Tools -> Options... -> Security Tab
3. Make sure you are willing to lose any existing passwords:
   Click "Show Passwords..." button
4. Create a master password:
   [x] Use a master password
   Click "OK" Button"
5. quit out of FF
6. Copy key3.db and signons.txt from old profile
   Try: C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
7. Start up in the correct profile
8. Verify passwords are in there via:
Tools -> Options... -> Security Tab
Click "Show Passwords..." button
(enter in your master password)

Posted by mark at October 30, 2006 12:30 PM | TrackBack