Want to export your passwords from Firefox to Microsoft Edge? We show you step by step how to achieve it

We recently saw how to generate a file containing all the keys stored in Google Chrome. A password file that we should keep safe given the sensitive information it contains. A process that we now repeat but in this case with the other great browser on the market, Mozilla Firefox.

And perhaps for many it is not the most common, but at a certain moment it may be interesting to have a backup copy on our computerof all our stored keys.Either because we must format the computer or to export them to another browser, these are the steps we must take in the fox's browser.

The problem is that before we could use an extension that took care of exporting that information in XML or CSV format. Information that was generated in the form of a file that we could later recover and use again.

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On the other hand with Firefox 57 and 58, although we can easily see the saved passwords from the menu Options > Privacy and Security > Saved accounts , we can&39;t export the passwords. This, however, does not prevent us from achieving the same by other means."

Natively

Firefox Quantum stores passwords in two files: key4.db and logins.json. It is therefore a matter of making a backup copy of these two files so that we have a backup copy in case it is necessary at some point.

To access these two files we must access the directory “%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\” (without the quotes ) and the most effective formula to do it is to copy the address in the explorer bar.

We will then see our profile folder that stores the two files key4.db and logins.json, which we can copy to another folder .

It is the method that allows us not to depend on third-party applications, a method that offers a problem and that is that does not allow us to use the resulting file to export passwords to others browsers.

With external applications

In this case we must make the resulting file compatible, of the HTML type for example, and that is what the PasswordFox application offers, which we can download to access to all saved passwords.

Once we start PasswordFox, we will see a window that shows all the stored passwords. We select the ones we want to export (or all of them if that is the case) and we choose to save them in an HTML file that this time we can use to import them from other browsers.

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