2008/5/30 Simon Elliott alug@sionide.net:
(Ted Harding) wrote:
Hi Folks,
I've had an oldish firefox running for a few years one one machine, and have accumulatd a few dozen login username/passwords for various websites.
I'm now doing most of my browsing using iceweasel on a new machine, and I'd like to "copy" all those passwords over to the new setup.
Hi Ted,
So it's Firefox 2.x then I take it? Well I'm not sure how Iceweasel copes with Firefox extensions but the way to go with this, if you've got a Google Account is to use Google Browser Sync. http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/ It doesn't currently work with Firefox3 Betas which is a pain in the arse but it's fantastic for sharing passwords, cookies, browsing history, bookmarks and even actual tabs open between machines.
As I say, I've not tried it on Iceweasel but I imagine it should work and if you don't have a Google account, I can hook you up with an invite. You choose a 4 digit pin number after putting your google username/password in and it's all encrypted..
Another alternative is to use Mozilla's new extension called Weave (http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/12/introducing-weave/) which does the same as Google Browser Sync , however this is only for Firefox3 Betas and above I believe and what I'm having trouble with is moving my bookmarks nicely over from Firefox 2.x to 3. The reason it's difficult is because they've slightly changed the layout behind-the-scenes of Bookmarks in the latest version of Firefox for some reason so that's why Google Browser Sync isn't compatible. I'm also fairly certain this was a Google employee's free-time project and it's been neglected of late. An awesome extension, extremely useful but it seems to have been forgotten about by whoever made it at Google :(
Definitely check out Google Browser Sync and see if it works with Iceweasel.
-Si
I tried the google browser sync and found it rather unreliable with firefox 2 - bookmarks seemed to get jumbled up, separators inserted, about a dozen i recall in the bottom of one bookmark folder! From what i could see not one of google's good inventions. I used Foxmarks instead and found that excellent without a glitch.
james