[Tfug] where are saved passwords located in firefox

David Cowell davidwcowell at cox.net
Thu Apr 3 17:48:19 CDT 2008


Almost... Edit > Preferences > Privacy > Passwords > View Saved
Passwords. Then do a screen print. (The info is most likely stored
encrypted in your home directory in a file named similar to:
~/.mozilla/firefox/rendaaxr.default/signons2.txt)

(Assuming of course that you can access your Linux box.)

Otherwise it's the hard way (logging on as a password loser).


On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 23:20 -0700, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> On 04/02/2008 06:24 PM, Earl wrote:
> > I'm using a Windows computer and need a couple of passwords for 
> > some old websites on my Linux box.  Unfortunately the computers 
> > are in the public library and I don't remember passwords for 
> > things like the Ubuntu site, etc.
> >
> Preferences -> Security -> Show Passwords??
> 




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