My computer hardware decided to die on me over the weekend, RIP my sweet computer. Although it was able to be rebuilt in no time due to the computer dude residing with me who is also known as my sons’ father. The computer didn’t actually “die” per say, I was still able to get online and do things from my computer but after a little while the networking card was not being seen by the computer, which meant, no Internet nor network access.
Thankfully I was prepping my computer for a reformat when all of the parts inside of my beautiful computer case decided to go on vacation. The only thing I was uncertain of while working to get my files, pictures and such transferred to our server was how do I export saved passwords in FireFox? This is one thing I always lose during a reformat, saved passwords. I refused to go through losing my passwords yet again and knew there had to be a solution.
As with most everything in FireFox, I knew there must be an add-on I could use to save my passwords from being lost in thin air during the rebuild and reformat of my computer. I searched online to find the Password Exporter add-on for Firefox and let me tell you what, this is an easy add-on to use if you are looking to save your passwords or transfer passwords from one computer to the next using your home or office network.
Simply install the Password Exporter add-on in FireFox, you probably will be prompted to restart FireFox so that the add-on is available. From there go to Tools –> Options –> Security. You will now see under the saved passwords area in this tab an option to import/export passwords. Click the button to export passwords, but remember to save the file as .csv file so that you may open it in Excel or notepad documents. Then click to export passwords. A file will be saved on your computer, my advice is to save this file somewhere on your secure home network prior to reformatting a computer or trying to transfer it to another computer.
Once you are ready to access the saved passwords again, simply use the Password Exporter add-on in FireFox and use the import option. It’s a couple of clicks and you never have to worry about losing a password again. I would recommend keeping a back up of your passwords every so often on a secure server just in case the unthinkable happens and your computer crashes before you can export the passwords safely.
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I’m totally going to remember this!
Ah crap! I wish I would have read this yesterday. I just bought a new tower and transferred over everything. Trying to remember all my passwords now. Ugh. Old tower is already unplugged and don’t feel like unplugging everything. Hopefully I remember this next time!
RT @brandyellen: How Do I Export Saved Passwords in Firefox? http://t.co/5R0K83Ia
Wow, I’m adding this add on. Thanks so much. Would love to know if there is one for Google Chrome.