Closed Bug 371582 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

when you go back to a previous version from 2.0.0.2 or 1.5.0.10 passwords are lost

Categories

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
critical

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 369969

People

(Reporter: al_9x, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10 use a different file (signons2.txt) and format for passwords, but there is no excuse for deleting/not backing up the old signons.txt

also, if passwords were stored as (for instance) xml then new fields would not prevent older versions from reading the file, avoiding this whole problem

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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