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.
Passwords are stored in encrypted form in a file signons.txt (old machine) or signons2.txt (new machine), and each is in a directory ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default, where the "xxxxxxxx" is a random-looking string (different between the two) and presumably serves as an encryption key.
So I can't just copy signons.txt to signons2.txt -- it doesnt work! (tried it).
One way, of course, is to trek through edit>preferences>passwords in firefox on the old machine, and get them up in the browser, unencrypted, and read them off when I need them. This of course is tedious!
Any suggestions for how to port the lot from firefox to iceweasel?
(I had no problem simply copying my bookmarks.html from one to the other; but then that's just plain text).
With thanks, Ted.
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