Comments on: Getting password from Firefox to Safari?

Question: Getting password from Firefox to Safari?

trey — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 06:58:05 -0800

How do I get a password out of Firefox and into Safari without some crazy encryption skills?

I have a four-digit password to a site (specifically a site to check on the status of a PhD application) that is auto-saved in Firefox. I don't really use Firefox all that much, preferring Safari. How can I get the password into Safari so I don't have to load up Firefox every time I want to check on that application?

I already tossed the piece of paper with the password/PIN on it, so that option is out.

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 07:04:42 -0800

By: paxton

paxton — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 07:05:13 -0800

on the windows version of FF there is an option to show saved passwords. Can you copy the password from FF and save it in Safari?

By: veedubya

veedubya — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 07:07:50 -0800

Will you get locked out of the account if more than a certain number of incorrect logins are made? If not a Perl (or something similar) would be just the ticket for a quick and dirty brute-force attack. A script would be able to iterate through all the possible combinations reasonably quickly.

By: trey

trey — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 07:14:34 -0800

Thanks!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:26:43 -0800

That works great. Is there any equivalent feature for safari? I have a problem going the other way -- I need to retrieve an old password from safari to use in firefox.

By: trey

trey — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:30:51 -0800

Aren't Safari's passwords stored in Keychain?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:39:29 -0800

Aw, forget it, I found it. For safari, open the Keychain Access app, expand the Passwords option, select Internet, then find the site listing, double click it to get properties (you might have to enter your OS X admin pass here) and then check off the show passwords box.