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Denc nañu waxtaan wii. Yónneel yeneen laaj soo soxlaa ndimbal.

How do i recover my password?

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partyhji3434
partyhji3434
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I am going to migrate to Firefox dev edition due to a error with firefox saying xpcom can not load but I dont know how I migrate passwords. Please help me, my google password is stored there and I forgot the password.

I am going to migrate to Firefox dev edition due to a error with firefox saying xpcom can not load but I dont know how I migrate passwords. Please help me, my google password is stored there and I forgot the password.

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Dropa
Dropa
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These are the tips mentioned.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-login-data-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1271699 https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/958936

Also one should write it down or use another method to back your logins otherwise issue like this can and will happen again.

Terry
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The files you need to copy from the old profile folder to the new are key4.db (key3.db in old versions) and logins.json.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering-important-data-from-an-old-profile https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data#w_what-information-is-stored-in-my-profile