by Daniel Dawson (Developer) on March 14, 2016 · permalink

I'm not having this problem. But others have had it in the past, and it is usually caused by corruption in the profile. There was also a bug in Fx 44 that caused it to erase all passwords in certain cases, but that should have been fixed long ago. In any case, to my knowledge this has never been caused by SPE before, so I suggest you look, and maybe ask, on Mozilla Support: https://support.mozilla.org

If you need to get in contact with me, please DO NOT use the review system like this, since we cannot have a proper conversation (this is the only way I can reply, and you might not even see it depending on your settings). Instead, use the email or support site link provided.

by Daniel Dawson (Developer) on Feb. 2, 2016 · permalink

It is. Literally: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/password-exporter/

Several people are requesting this. But the question is, what's wrong with that other add-on? Besides, it's not only SPE users who want the functionality. Anyone who saves their passwords in Firefox and Thunderbird might want to back up their passwords. If they don't want to install SPE, they can still install the lighter-weight Password Exporter (PE) and get that functionality.

I can think of two things that can be improved upon in regards to PE: (1) working on SeaMonkey and (2) supporting another format, like JSON (nice to have, but not required). Other than that, what is there?

I won't definitely not do it. If I do, though, I might implement it as a separate add-on. So that would be a replacement for Password Exporter.

by Daniel Dawson (Developer) on Feb. 2, 2016 · permalink

This is not the place for support requests, as the site rules clearly state (it should also have told you that as you were typing your review). Please send your request to my email or the support site; both are linked from the add-on listing page. Then we'll be able to have a proper conversation.

by Daniel Dawson (Developer) on Dec. 14, 2015 · permalink

I understand the problem. It's not so easy to do, though. SPE is dependent on doing things in a way that requires restarting to (un)install, enable, and disable. It can be adapted, but it's by no means a trivial change; it will probably require rewriting a lot of it from scratch. It won't be long, though, that I'll have to change it anyway, since Firefox is going to stop supporting traditional add-ons.

by Daniel Dawson (Developer) on Nov. 16, 2015 · permalink

Only somewhat. For instance, 42 still doesn't allow you to save, edit, or delete your passwords straight from the page context menu (with SPE, right-click on a username or password field in a web form, and you get those options).

You have to make your passwords visible in order to edit them (with SPE, they can remain hidden from anyone looking over your shoulder).

Most importantly, you still can't input logins on your own, which means that if the Password Manager is unable to recognize a web form for whatever reason (say, it's built after page load by scripts), you're out of luck.

To be fair, the things that used to confound the Password Manager still confound SPE. I should look into what Mozilla has done to see if SPE can be improved too.