Password Exporter

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by treehouse on Nov. 9, 2015 · permalink

Thanks Justin and Jorge - I was looking for a way to get my FF passwords into a new installation of Linux Mint (on a different computer), found this, and installed it on each. I exported the passwords as XML, obfuscated, directly to a flash drive, straight from the Options dialog immediately after installing, then imported them directly from the flash drive to the Linux machine. Couldn't have been easier. Tested it by going to a few sites where I have automatic logins, and it's worked perfectly AFAIK. Shame to uninstall it, but it's not something I need there all the time. However, it doesn't even require a restart, so it's no bother if I needed it again. I didn't want to use Sync and trust the cloud with passwords, and I didn't want to transfer my whole profile, just bits of it. The file on the flash drive can now be deleted, or even destroyed if I was paranoid about it being recovered. Using Firefox 42. Great work, thanks again. Now just need to do the same with my tabs and groups!