After updating Firefox from 2.0.0.16 to the current 2.0.0.17 yesterday I can't use the passwords stored in Firefox anymore. Also I can't seem to save new passwords. After going back to 2.0.0.16 the passwords are back again, updating again to 2.0.0.17 and passwords are gone again. The behaviour sounds identical to a problem reported with Firefox 3.0.2 that was fixed with 3.0.3 (http://support.mozilla.com/de/kb/cannot+use+or+save+passwords+after+upgrading+Firefox). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.update Firefox from 2.0.0.16 to 2.0.0.17 2.start Firefox 3.go to Security/Show passwords Actual Results: An empty list is shown. Expected Results: With 2.0.0.16 Firefox asks for my master password and thenm shows a list of web sites and usernames. Not sure if this is a linux or gentoo only problem. I was using Firefox 2.0.0.16 on a windows machine and updated it to 2.0.0.17 without problems, all passwords were still there.
Yeah, i had the same issue with thunderbird... Are we talking about -bin or not bin?
Sorry for not mentioning this. No -bin, I'm compiling from sources (www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.17).
(In reply to comment #0) > After updating Firefox from 2.0.0.16 to the current 2.0.0.17 yesterday I can't > use the passwords stored in Firefox anymore. Also I can't seem to save new > passwords. From https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451155#c17 : > relnote: passwords entries of this type created in the broken builds (3.0, > 3.0.1) will not be corrected in 3.0.3, they will have to be created and saved > again by the user. The invalid entry will be there in PWM and should probably > also just be removed by the user. You should try to check the charset of the file signons.txt in your firefox profile (don't forget to make a backup). See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454708 comments #25 and #26 for details.
Thanks for the links, however - I don't have notepad.exe on my machine and probably never will ;-) - when I open signons2.txt in kwrite and check for the coding it already says UTF8. Saving it again doesn't change a single bit.
I updated to 2.0.0.17 again, removed signons2.txt completely and restarted Firefox. I was able to save passwords, but signons2.txt wasn't created and after restarting Firefox the previously entered password wasn't remembered. So it seems mmy problem is not related to signons2.txt only :-(. I now removed my profile completely and started from scratch. Password saving works again, although it still doesn't read my old signons2.txt. Seems I lost them completely :-((. I will now try to rebuild my configuration (setup, addons, bookmarks, etc.) and then see which passwords I can remember/restore...
> when I open signons2.txt in kwrite and check for the coding it already says > UTF8. Saving it again doesn't change a single bit. You should try to save signons2.txt in iso-8859-1 and then go back to UTF8.
As I said before even Firefox 2.0.0.17 didn't save any passwords when starting it with _no_ signons2.txt. So I reinstalled 2.0.0.16, made screenshots of all sites, usernames and passwords, removed my profile and updated to 2.0.0.17. I'm now going to visit all sites, log on and save the passwords.
