Password Exporter: Never Lose your Login information, Safely Export it!

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October 28, 2008 ||

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Password Screen

With 100’s of new and better services being launched, you tend to register with least a few new services every week not because they are new but because they offer something your existing service does not offer.

The point is, we register with a lot of services and over a period of time managing login information becomes a nightmare. Thanks for FireFox for offering an improved password managing service with Firefox3. I have had instances where I lost passwords because my system crashed. What do I do? Almost every time I wanted to login to any of the services I had to request for new login information, I did this for almost a week until I covered all the services I was registered with.

Here we discuss a Firefox plug-in called “Password Exporter” which helps you export your passwords at any point and save the information anywhere you’d like.

Alright.. for the starters, click here to download Password Exporter.

Once installed restart Firefox and got to Tools > Options > Security Tab. Notice a new button here which says Import/Export Passwords. (See the image below)

Password Exporter

Click on the Import/Export Passwords button and you will see the screen like the one below.

Export Passwords: This one lets you export your stored passwords in an XML format. I suggest “Encrypt Usernames/Passwords” should always be checked before exporting the passwords so that these passwords are at least not readable by the naked eye.

Import Passwords: Click on the button and point to the existing XML document containing passwords, it will import all the passwords.

Export Disable Hosts and Import Disabled Hosts maintain a list of sites for which saving password was denied.

View Saved Passwords: It will ask for the master password, which once provided will show you the list of saved passwords.

Password Exporter Options

Once you click Export Passwords button it asks for Master Password, if set. Once you punch the master password in, you are prompted to save the XML file at the desired location.

Password Exporter - Save File

Click on Save and all the passwords are saved.

Password Exporter - Saved

I currently have only 26 Passwords saved as I lost at least a 100 in the last system crash. I managed to save all my data except Firefox and everything that was there on the Desktop.

But this time around I’ve set my system up in a way that even if my laptop crashes I won’t lose any data including the Firefox settings and Desktop information. My next post will be based on the same topic. “How to save the data even if the computer crashes”