Agreed, please add import and export from/to CSV or plain text - would make migration from my current manager (LastPass) much easier.

Hi Dave, Firefox doesn't have a password export feature, either in the new Lockwise page or classic popup dialog. I don't know whether there is any plan to add that.

Here are some workarounds discussed in past threads:

File Backup for Safekeeping

One option to back up your saved logins would be to copy a pair of files from time to time. Those files are:

• logins.json
• key4.db

Those files are stored in your currently active Firefox profile folder. These articles describe how to find that folder and what it contains. On the receiving Firefox, you'll want to exit out before replacing in-use files.

References:

• Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data
• Back up and restore information in Firefox profiles
• Recovering important data from an old profile
• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14201/windows-show-hidden-files

Exporting to Text for Backup or Use in Other Programs

Historically, users have relied on one of these:

• External program designed to read Firefox files, such as
  • https://github.com/kspearrin/ff-password-exporter (multi-OS)
  • http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/passwordfox.html (Windows)

• Run a script in the Browser Console to generate a list or file:
  • JSON file: https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1258644
  • CSV: https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1253828 (copy/paste from console)

If there's something new out there, I don't know about it yet.

Hi BeneathTheWaves, to submit feature suggestions, you have many choices, depending on your desired style of interaction.

Discussion Sites/Advocacy

• Mozilla Discourse: https://discourse.mozilla.org/
  • If none of the categories seem to fit, try https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/firefox-development
• Reddit (monitored by Mozilla): https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/
• I saw someone created a Change.org petition but I don't know who sees those

Limited Length Comments

• Feedback site: https://qsurvey.mozilla.com/s3/FirefoxInput/
• Twitter (Mozilla official): https://twitter.com/firefox

Bug Tracking System

• Unfortunately, new feature requests tend to get a low priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
• See: Bugzilla Etiquette

VMT jscher200 I was able to follow [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/que.../1253828] This allowed me to enable development tools, copy the script in the link and paste into a Console Window and run. I copied the output and special pasted into a LibreOffice spreadsheet. Problem solved!

After realizing Mozilla have slurped up 240+ of my passwords to the cloud!!!

You are as bad as the people you say you are trying to protect netizens from!

I have tried the password export script to get my passwords back before I delete my account but it fails!!!

I wish I had known before I made my annual Christmas donation!

This simply irresponsible when it comes to the net its not if but when so I am now very worried about my data!

Your script above simply does not work! https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1253828

see the image below!

ariez1 said

After realizing Mozilla have slurped up 240+ of my passwords to the cloud!!! You are as bad as the people you say you are trying to protect netizens from! I have tried the password export script to get my passwords back before I delete my account but it fails!!! I wish I had known before I made my annual Christmas donation! This simply irresponsible when it comes to the net its not if but when so I am now very worried about my data! Your script above simply does not work! https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1253828 see the image below!

I am the original questioner and one of the potential solutions offered by jscher200 worked for me. I am sorry it did not work for you - maybe some of the others will? Please remember my technical environment is probably different than yours.

I thought I had marked my question as solved. I will now try and do so.

Hi David,

Thank you for your quick feedback.

FYI my environment is not much different to yours openSUSE 15.1 Linux with Firefox 71.0.

I have now got both the CSV and JSON dump java script stubs to work. The key bit of information not mentioned in the above is that the script must be run in the about:config tab.

This may be trivial but it cost me a lot of time and heartache. I hope this post will save others the same heartache.

This may be obvious to the very helpful authors but not necessarily so to those less familiar with the inner working of the Firefox development environment.

Thank you for the code snippet!

ariez1 said

I have now got both the CSV and JSON dump java script stubs to work. The key bit of information not mentioned in the above is that the script must be run in the about:config tab.

You can do that? Wow! Normally you run it in the Browser Console (not the in-tab Web Console) which is a separate tool that opens in a separate window: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Tools/Browser_Console

Dave said

VMT jscher200 I was able to follow [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/que.../1253828] This allowed me to enable development tools, copy the script in the link and paste into a Console Window and run. I copied the output and special pasted into a LibreOffice spreadsheet. Problem solved!

Worked perfectly; just as described by jscher2000 on the above-linked page (and in the Browser Console -- _not_ the about:config tab, which was closed when I ran it). Dr.Q