Is there a simple app that can transfer everything easily? Like my favorites, browsing history and everything, including autofill setting and whatnot? I really just don’t want to redo everything and essentially start fresh.
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Thank you everyone! I’ve used chrome for so long and the last time I tried fire fox over 13 years ago it didn’t auto transfer anything, so I had no idea. And I will look into a 3rd party for password storage.
I’m not super savy with some things, so I don’t really know what you mean by “self hosting” but I guess I’ll look into that too.
Again thanks! Looks like I will make the switch!
Favorites are migrated by the welcome wizard.
Password and credit cards you should migrate them to bitwarden free as it’s more secure and cross platform
Auto fill on Firefox works much much better than chromium browsers (that I had to keep it disabled because it always messed up shipping addresses)
C:/users/user/appdata/local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default - Web Data file. Copy and paste it to the same directory of your new browser and the autofill data will get transferred. please use a password manager for passwords. I suggest Bitwarden.
Wait, all that valuable data is easily accessible from there!?
yes
I’m prettey sure Firefox can do that, and like others said: it is better to use a password manager like Bitwarden (you can also selfhost it) instead of Firefox’s built in one.
Why?
If I remember correctly if you use your browser’s password manager anyone with access to your PC can see your passwords, with Bitwarden or Keepass (or any other password manager) you need the master password.
Also I thought that the browser also saves the passwords unencrypted but I’m not sure if that’s true.
You can see more details about how Firefox protects passwords here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-firefox-securely-saves-passwords
Firefox Desktop uses simple cryptography to obscure your passwords
Obscure, not secure. It’s trivial for any program you’ve installed to read them.
What doesn’t get imported by Firefox automatically can be downloaded from your google account directly. Every single bit of data they have on you.
Oooooooooooo
As said previously, strongly strongly recommend not using browsers to store passwords and paiement cards. Bitwarden and keepass are well known good options, but if you trust Proton you should try their new password manager Proton Pass which has a free tier (not affiliated to them) For the moment I still have an active license on 1password so haven’t switched over yet
People keep repeating this. But I’ve never really heard s good reason for why a separate password manager is any more secure.
Firefox’s saved passwords are not encrypted and just copying your user profile to another computer will allow someone else to use your credentials.
If you use Chrome, do you really want Google knowing your logins?
Firefox supports a master password to encrypt them with
But by default it’s not encrypted and nobody ever changes the default settings
On top of what has been said on lower security, this is also much worse in terms of privacy. You are giving up your credentials to Google/Mozilla.
Also they do not encrypt (when they do at all)website URLs, only the secret parts (passwords) so this is a downside as well. Anyone getting access (or Google/Mozilla) of the encrypted vault knows what apps/sites you have accounts on. Some password managers do encrypt everything
But yes, primarily it is way easier to steal passwords from a browser, especially when it’s synced across many devices including some with lower security (a phone with just a pin, a phone lent to other people, a computer or tablet or phone let open to anyone to change music on Spotify, …)
If you have Firefox Accounts and enabled the Sync functionality, your sync login data (usernames, passwords, hostnames) is fully encrypted once it’s created and/or modified. However, Mozilla cannot decrypt your usernames and passwords when they are stored on the sync server.
Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-firefox-securely-saves-passwords
