How to Recover Saved Passwords in Waterfox Browser

How to Recover Saved Passwords in Waterfox Browser

In this article, you’ll learn where Waterfox browser stores your passwords, how they are protected, and how you can easily recover them.

Waterfox Browser Password Secrets

Waterfox browser saves all your website logins at following location

[Windows Vista/7/8/10]
C:\Users\[user_name]\AppData\Roaming\Waterfox\Profiles\[random name].default\

[Windows XP/2003] 
C:\Documents and Settings\[user_name]\Application Data\Waterfox\Profiles\[random name].default\

Waterfox browser stores all the website login passwords in JSON format file called ‘logins.json’

Here is one of the website entry,

{
"id":1,
"hostname":"https://accounts.google.com",
"httpRealm":null,
"formSubmitURL":"https://accounts.google.com",
"usernameField":"user",
"passwordField":"pwd",
"encryptedUsername":"MDIEEPgBBBBABBBEwFAYIbaZIhvcNAwcEaAFsqdqBAiJyHK56O9cid==",
"encryptedPassword":"MDoEEPgBCCCCAAAAAAEwFCDIKoZIBAtABCG4rNAexni08zRm4Sraz/",
"guid":"{46cfe997-9043-40e8-8207-6d6cf222bcb4}",
"encType":1,
"timeCreated":1304064618760,
"timesUsed":25
},

Here formSubmitURL, encryptedUsername and encryptedPassword refers to website login link, encrypted username and encrypted password respectively.

Waterfox browser uses Triple DES and SHA1 algorithm to encrypt both username & password. After encryption, resulting password is stored in Base64 format in the above file.

How to Recover Waterfox Browser Passwords Automatically

Now you can easily recover all your forgotten passwords from Waterfox browser without any technical knowledge.

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Follow these simple steps,

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  2. Click on “Recover Passwords”
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