Important Notice: We're experiencing email notification issues. If you've posted a question in the community forums recently, please check your profile manually for responses while we're working to fix this.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

Where does Firefox store passwords and user data online?

  • 1 reply
  • 0 have this problem
  • 7 views
  • Last reply by cor-el

adithyads4a
adithyads4a
more options

Does Firefox store passwords on the cloud for syncing? If so, where or on what platform/ server are they uploaded in?If not how does the syncing take place?

Does Firefox store passwords on the cloud for syncing? If so, where or on what platform/ server are they uploaded in?If not how does the syncing take place?

All Replies (1)

cor-el
cor-el
  • Top 25 Contributor
  • Moderator
more options

Sync encrypts all data locally, including logins (passwords) if those are included, using a key derived from the password of the Sync account before it is uploaded.

See also the docs.