Google Chrome doesn’t import Firefox passwords?

The solution to this problem was simple.  I’ve over 50 passwords saved in Firefox and was disappointed for a minute when Google Chrome did not import the passwords from Firefox to Chrome even though it supported this feature of importing passwords.

Then I realized the reason:  The password importing won’t work if your have a ‘Master Password’ set in Firefox.  Unset this master password and then retry importing the passwords.  It will surely work.

Google rocks!  I love Chrome and it’s still only version 0.2 :)

Update:
Please mention in the comment section if you are using an Alpha version of Firefox and importing passwords to Chrome does not work.

5 Responses

  1. I’ve had the experience that Chrome imported my FF3 settings and passwords on my laptop, but on my desktop it will only import IE settings. I have the same version of FF3 on my desktop as my laptop, so I have no idea why Chrome wont import my FF3 settings / bookmarks / passwords on my desktop.

  2. @Jacob: So you mean to say that while importing, instead of showing a drop-down menu containing both IE and Firefox, you see just IE? When I was importing, the default browser shown was IE and I had to bring down the drop-down and select Firefox. Trying doing that if it somehow missed your notice.

  3. I use Firefox, Opera, and IE, but I didn’t get any option when importing. It just started imported and then said it was done importing.
    It imported my Firefox bookmarks but not passwords :(
    And no I don’t have a master password set.
    Any ideas? I’m using Firefox 3.1alpha1 and Chrome 0.2.149.29

    If you could e-mail me at azumao (AT) gmail (DOT) com with how I can import them it would be greatly appreciated.

  4. it will be interesting to see if Chrome can get as much market share as Firefox; for now they seem to have leveled off…

  5. Importing of passwords does not work with Firefox v3.5b99!!!

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