Password panic!

[undyingking]

Hmm, Firefox seems to have gone naughty on me (after a browser crash) and is refusing to access my remembered passwords.

I've upgraded to the hyper-new 2.0.0.3 which apparently fixes a related bug about not populating password fields, but it hasn't helped.

The annoying thing is I can see them all sitting there (encrypted) in my signons2.txt file, but for some reason neither Firefox itself nor the Password Exporter extension is able to read them out -- apart from my LJ one, which I've just now re-entered so as to be able to post this.

I found some online discussion of an edit to signons2.txt that might help (putting the url at the foot of each block as well as the head), but no help.

I wonder if the encryption key's got screwed somehow...

Anyone else seeing this problem, or are you all too security-conscious to be letting it remember your passwords in the first place?

Edit: I've recreated signons2.txt, and new passwords I have Firefox remember into it are read back out fine. But pasting in, some of the old ones out of the previous signons2.txt, they're not recognizd. This seems to support the idea that the encryption key has unexpectedly changed. Bah!

Comments

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I don't let it remember my passwords!

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Why does that not surprise me...

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

You could always try the shareware version of FPRM to see how b0rk3d things are ?

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Hmm, thanks for the suggestion, but that didn't manage to retrieve any passwords at all -- not even the one that Firefox itself can see.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Poo !

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the add - btw, do you know if there's a way to send messages other than post-replying? just curious.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

No, there isn't (AFAIK) -- if you want to contact someone "off-post" you have to email them or similar.

[thecesspit.livejournal.com]

Synchronicity....

Firefox just told me it was ready to install 2.0.0.3...

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

It's a conspiracy!