On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:51:24 pm Curt wrote: > >> On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: >> > Greetings all; >> > >> > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a >> > wheezy install to a stretch install, separate drives. And obviously >> > the stretch firefox is about 20 versions newer. What file do I copy >> > from the wheezy drive to the stretch drive so my bank knows its me? >> >> I believe you need the following *two* files: >> >> key4.db >> logins.json >> >> > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Couldn't find it, so I ran updateb with the old drive mounted.
The info was gleefully plagiarized and happily lifted (which means the same thing, I think) from here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data A post concerning the eternal old to new version conundrum: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1210910 If you have new passwords in your profile, this will not work. In the new profile, remove the password files; key3.db [v58+] key4.db and logins.json : These are the Password files. Now Copy those same files from the old profile. This must be done with Firefox Closed. > key4.db shows up in several places, but it looks like the one I might > want is one of these two: > this one as its the biggest by quite a bit > /home/gene/.mozilla/firefox/73t2g4uq.default/key4.db except its on this > drive? But copying it over from the old drive didn't seem to do a thing, > and neither did copying logins.json. Firefox has changed a lot since > wheezy. > So I guess I'll have to shutdown, swap cables to make sdb into sda , boot > wheezy and see if I can con it into printing all that stuff, I need my > bookmarks-toolbar to make it complete too. Sigh. Tomorrows project, its > about time to go scare a couple pork chops to death with a hot skillet. > > Thanks. Maybe this python script could be of help eventually, if all else fails: https://github.com/unode/firefox_decrypt Of course, you must provide your master password (if you have one) and the *profile* from which to decrypt the logins. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett -- Mrs Hessler, the teacher, considered me her employee, and I played along with this to keep the frown off that somewhat shapeless face she had crowned with an inappropriate platinum pixie. I regularly fed her made-up news items from imaginary newspapers, and she always bought it. ‘Drone Strike on a Strip Club’, for example. -- Thomas McGuane, https://granta.com/grandma-and-me/
