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May 25, 2005
Firefox Not Saving Passwords
I've had this problem on and off before, but after a clean install (and deletion of my profile) the problem went away. Then I upgraded to Firefox 1.0.4 (without deleting my profile) and Firefox wouldn't offer tp save any passwords and wouldn't fill in previously saved passwords. I did some checking on the web and really couldn't find anything, so I decided to dig around myself. I found where the usernames and hashed passwords were stored (signon.txt) and started removing entries. Lo and behold when I went to the sites of the entries that I'd deleted Firefox asked me if I wanted to save the password!
So, the best thing to do when you get that annoying bug pop up on you is to delete the signon.txt and key3.db (used to decrypt the passwords and usernames) files. They are located in
Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{profile}
Where {username} is your Windows login name, mine is "Guy Pascarella", and the {profile} is some weird string that Mozilla comes up with, mine is "2kotw6e7.default". So, on my machine these files are located at
C:\Documents and Settings\Guy Pascarella\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\2kotw6e7.default
Hope nobody runs into this problem, or at least can figure out what to do. It does seem harsh to completely delete these files, but if this functionality isn't working anyway it can really only help, right?
Posted by Guy at May 25, 2005 07:55 PM
Comments
Thank you! I've been looking everywhere for a solution to this problem since I 'accidentally' deleted all my FFox passwords. I deleted the files you mentioned above and now at least FFox is asking to save my passwords again.
Thanks!
Posted by: Anthony at May 8, 2008 06:27 AM