Recover Firefox Passwords Using FirePassword

Posted by dkszone on January 3, 2010

Firefox lets you store usernames and passwords for all the websites that you visit, so that you don’t need to re-enter the same information again. This information is stored in an encrypted format and can be viewed only using Firefox’s built-in password manager. In case of a Firefox crash, it’s very difficult to recover all the stored passwords.

FirePassword is a free command line utility, which lets you easily decrypt the username and password list from Firefox sign-on database. While you can view all the stored passwords using Firefox itself, FirePassword may come as a rescue in situations when you are unable to fix the current Firefox installation or install a new one without losing the data. Also FirePassword lets you restore passwords across different profiles as well as operating systems (such as Linux, Mac etc).

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