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how can i find my saved passwords from windows using mac

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i was using windows before and my laptop crashed. I now have a mac and have my old laptop hard drive as an external hard drive. How can i find/locate all my saved passwords using mac?

All my very important logins are stored in my old browser.

Hope that you can help me.

Thank you so much in advance.

i was using windows before and my laptop crashed. I now have a mac and have my old laptop hard drive as an external hard drive. How can i find/locate all my saved passwords using mac? All my very important logins are stored in my old browser. Hope that you can help me. Thank you so much in advance.

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nikilangit said

i was using windows before and my laptop crashed. I now have a mac and have my old laptop hard drive as an external hard drive. How can i find/locate all my saved passwords using mac? All my very important logins are stored in my old browser. Hope that you can help me. Thank you so much in advance.

If you were using Firefox Sync, simply download and install Firefox on your new device, and activate Sync. When you sign in to Firefox Sync with your email address and password, you should be able to retrieve anything which was previously synced.

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You can copy files like these with Firefox closed to the current profile folder to recover specific data.

  • bookmarks and history: places.sqlite
  • bookmark backups: compressed .jsonlz4 JSON backups in the bookmarkbackups folder
  • cookies.sqlite for the Cookies
  • formhistory.sqlite for saved autocomplete Form Data
  • logins.json (passwords) and key4.db (58+) or key3.db (57 and older) (decryption key) for Passwords saved in the Password Manager
    if you only have key3.db then make sure to remove an existing key4.db
  • cert9.db (58+) or cert8.db (57 and older) for (intermediate) certificates stored in the Certificate Manager
    if you only have cert8.db then make sure to remove an existing cert9.db
  • persdict.dat for words you added to the spelling checker dictionary
  • permissions.sqlite for Permissions and possibly content-prefs.sqlite for other website specific data (Site Preferences)
  • sessionstore.jsonlz4 for open tabs and pinned tabs (see also the sessionstore-backups folder)

You can use the button on the "Help -> Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) page to go to the current Firefox profile folder or use the about:profiles page.

Modified by cor-el