how to find firefox password | XenArmor https://xenarmor.com Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:47:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://xenarmor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favicon-120x120.png how to find firefox password | XenArmor https://xenarmor.com 32 32 How to Recover Saved Passwords in Mozilla Firefox https://xenarmor.com/how-to-recover-saved-passwords-in-mozilla-firefox-browser/ https://xenarmor.com/how-to-recover-saved-passwords-in-mozilla-firefox-browser/#comments Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:58:12 +0000 https://xenarmor.com/?p=14774 This research article shows you all password secrets of Mozilla Firefox browser including where all your website passwords are stored, how it is stored and how to recover it automatically. Firefox Password Secrets Firefox browser saves all your website login passwords at following location [Windows Vista/7/8/10] C:\Users\[user_name]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[random name].default\ [Windows XP/2003] C:\Documents and Settings\[user_name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[random name].default\ Older version of Firefox (before v32.0) used to store all website logins in a SQLite database file called ‘signons.sqlite’ in the above profile folder. This database file has the table called “moz_logins” where each of the website login details are saved. Here are some of the interesting fields stored in this table, id - index of each website entry hostname - main link of the website or ipaddress formSubmitURL - login link of the website usernameField - name of the username field in the website encryptedUsername - encrypted username passwordField - name of the password field in the website encryptedPassword - encrypted password encType - value 1 indicates encrypted Here formSubmitURL, encryptedUsername and encryptedPassword refers to website login link, encrypted username and encrypted password respectively. Firefox uses Triple DES and SHA1 algorithm to encrypt both username & password. Finally the resulting password is stored in above file using Base64 format. Newer version of Firefox (after v32.0) stores all the website logins in JSON format file called ‘logins.json’ Here is the sample of one of the website entry from this file, { "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. Similar to older version,  new Firefox also uses Triple DES and SHA1 algorithm to encrypt both username & password. After encryption, resulting password is stored in Base64 format in the above file. Firefox Master Password...

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