284259 - Feature request: Backup Password Manager and Form Manager data to a seperate file.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 249801

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement)

Description

[Gerard Hickey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I have needed to recently reload my system a couple of times and each time all
of the information under Password Manager and Form Manager has been lost. It
would really be nice to have an import/export function that will save all the
data under these components to an external file. Of course, given the
sensitivity of the information I would expect the data to be encrypted and to be
importable after given the right password. 

An added bonus would be if the backup function also saved all the preference
information including bookmarks and cookie data. In the past I have tried to
backup the user preference folder and then restore it when I have reloaded
Firefox. This usually has been inconsistant at best. Hence the need to allow the
user to backup all of his preference data and then re-import it when the system
has been restored. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please search before you file a bug

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249801 ***