See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Password_Manager#Backing_up_and_restoring_passwords

Erm, MANY thanks for the reply! But that ended up about a foot above my head I'm afraid! ;-)

Any chance of a reply in plain idiots language please?? Chris

You need to place signons.sqlite and key3.db from that backup in the Firefox Profile Folder The file key3.db stores the encryption key and Firefox can't decrypt the names and passwords in signons.sqlite without the correct key3.db file.

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/key3.db

So simply drag them across? If this is so then thanks for your aid and have a good weekend! But above all thank you for your help!

Chris Goddard

Yes, you can simply drag the two mentioned files into the Firefox Profile Folder

Thanks very much again!

Chris

Hi

It is so simple go to > Tools > Error console....copy and paste the below code into code bar and press Evaluate....that's it all done

(function(){
var Cc = Components.classes;
var Ci = Components.interfaces;

netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalXPConnect");
var tokendb = Cc["@mozilla.org/security/pk11tokendb;1"]
                .createInstance(Ci.nsIPK11TokenDB);
var token = tokendb.getInternalKeyToken();

try { token.login(true);} catch (e) { }

if (token.isLoggedIn()) {
 var passwordmanager = Cc["@mozilla.org/login-manager;1"]
                         .getService(Ci.nsILoginManager);
 var signons = passwordmanager.getAllLogins({});

 for (i=0;i<signons.length;i++) {
  try {
   var host = signons[i].hostname;
   var realm = signons[i].httpRealm;
   var user = signons[i].username;
   var userf = signons[i].usernameField;
   var password = signons[i].password;
   var passwordf = signons[i].passwordField;
   var submiturl = signons[i].formSubmitURL;
   } catch(e) {}
 }

 var json =Cc["@mozilla.org/dom/json;1"]
  .createInstance(Ci.nsIJSON)
  .encode(signons);

 var fp=Cc["@mozilla.org/filepicker;1"]
          .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIFilePicker);

 fp.init(window,"",Ci.nsIFilePicker.modeSave);
 fp.defaultString="signons.json";
 if (fp.show() == fp.returnCancel) return;

 var filoutputStream=Cc["@mozilla.org/network/file-output-stream;1"]
                       .createInstance(Ci.nsIFileOutputStream);

 filoutputStream.init(fp.file,0x04|0x08,0644,0);
 filoutputStream.write(json,json.length);
 filoutputStream.close();
}
})()

Henry