Importing Passwords Into Firefox From Internet Explorer

So importing my bookmarks from Internet Explorer into Firefox was easy -- but then my history of saved password information for some of the key places I go to wasn't part of this. Ugh. But no fear, I quickly found an article explaining that File|Import lets me bring these over -- along with cookies, past history and other things. In contrast, using the Import feature from the Manage Bookmarks window only brings in bookmarks, not other information.

Downside? All my favorites are a subfolder of my regular one, and the sorting that Internet Explorer does of showing me the most used ones is lost. So some downtime, but something easily overcome. And the first page I visited needing password info, my username was recorded OK but my password wasn't. Had to dig it out.

By Danny Sullivan on Feb. 20, 2005 | Permalink
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