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Help to get My master password back.

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I Changed the master password! My kids starded to use the CPU and by mistake got all the passwords that me and My wife have. So i changed the password but lost the note of it. Can u please help us? Kindly /Stefan Nordén

I Changed the master password! My kids starded to use the CPU and by mistake got all the passwords that me and My wife have. So i changed the password but lost the note of it. Can u please help us? Kindly /Stefan Nordén

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cor-el
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No, I'm afraid that this isn't possible.
If you have lost the master password and do not remember it then you can consider those passwords as lost.

  1. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Master_password

The master password is used to encrypt the passwords (TripleDES in CBC mode), so you can't recover them.

You would need older copies of the files signons.sqlite and key3.db from before the change of the master password.