undefined | Better HN

0 pointsyoklov7y ago0 comments

Does firefox not import passwords from chrome as part of the profile import? It's... certainly supposed to.

EDIT: Oh, you probably didn't mean getting them out and into firefox, you probably wanted to use something different to avoid the same issue (but with firefox) if you switch browsers again in the future.

0 comments

quicklime7y ago

Actually, at the time, I would've been perfectly happy to have just imported the passwords into Firefox!

But I don't think it is able to import them, at least not on my machine. I'm using the latest Chromium/Firefox on the latest Ubuntu, and I just had another look. When I select the option to import data from another browser, I get a dialog that says:

Import Preferences, Bookmarks, History, Passwords and other data from: Chromium

When I select Chromium, I see a list of things I can import:

Select which items to import: [x] Cookies [x] Browsing History

For some reason, "Passwords" does not appear in the list, and when I browse to a site in Firefox, it doesn't use the password that Chromium had stored.

Maybe this is an OS-dependent thing?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse