269466 - Firefox doesn't remember imported passwords

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Moritz Balz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040726 Debian/1.7.1-4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040726 Debian/1.7.1-4

I use Debian unstable Linux, Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-2) and Mozilla
suite 1.7.1.

When I import my Mozilla 1.7.1 passwords to Firefox using File->Import, they
show up in the password manager, but the input fields on web sites are not
autocompleted.

After restarting Firefox the password manager list is empty.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Import passwords from Mozilla 1.7.1 via File->Import
2. Restart Firefox

Actual Results:  
No passwords are saved.

Expected Results:  
The imported passwords should still be available.

a) The same seems to apply for imported cookies

b) ... but not for the bookmarks imported at the same time.

Comment 1

[Adam]

Same with me.  I use Gentoo Linux and imported from Mozilla 1.7.3 into Firefox
1.0.  Bookmarks worked but not passwords.  The cookies themselves got imported
but not the permissions of what sites are allowed to store cookies.

My stored passwords are especially important to me and I don't think I'll switch
to Firefox until I can get those imported.

Comment 2

[Moritz Balz]

I discovered that data import works if Firefox gets started for the first time
(i.e., no ~/.mozilla/firefox directory exists).
Firefox asks if data from Mozilla should be imported, and if one chooses yes,
the data is still available after restarting Firefox.

Comment 3

[Adam]

That's true (Thanks Moritz!).  I had used an earlier version of Firefox but then
uninstalled it, and that folder was left over from before, so I never got the
dialog when I first started Firefox 1.0.

Furthermore, the dialog that appears when you import for the first time is quite
different than the one that appears when you select "File -> Import".  In the
latter case, the only option that was available to me was to import from
Netscape/Mozilla 1.x.  So it seems the import code is in 2 places, and in one
place it's incorrect.  In the "File -> Import" code, it doesn't import as much
as when you first start Firefox - it doesn't import preferences or history, at
least.

Comment 4

[mjesdoug]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I discovered that data import works if Firefox gets started for the first time
> (i.e., no ~/.mozilla/firefox directory exists).
> Firefox asks if data from Mozilla should be imported, and if one chooses yes,
> the data is still available after restarting Firefox.

What would be the analogous folder to eliminate in Win2K?  Just delete my
Firefox profile?  I'm having the same problem with an ever-disappearing list of
saved passwords... it's annoying as he** to say the least!

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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