@jonny33 ,
We currently have an open issue for this you can see here:
opened 04:21PM - 20 Nov 18 UTC
closed 04:27PM - 21 Sep 22 UTC
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priority/P3
QA/Yes
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OS/Desktop
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## Description
Passwords, Search Engine, and Autofill are not imported from Firefox. Other data, History, Bookmarks, Cookies are imported from Firefox.
## Steps to Reproduce
1. Have Firefox installed with data for History, Bookmarks, Cookies, Passwords, Search Engine, and Autofill data.
2. Close Firefox.
3. Launch Brave (I used a clean profile).
4. Import all data from Firefox.
5. Verify History, Bookmarks, Cookies are imported.
## Actual result:
Passwords, Search Engine, and Autofill are not imported.
## Expected result:
Passwords, Search Engine, and Autofill are imported.
## Reproduces how often:
Easily
## Brave version (brave://version info)
Reproduced on various release channel versions listed below:
Brave | 0.56.14 Chromium: 70.0.3538.102 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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Revision | 4bbeebac88fdc09c97265e47c205868bbd190497-refs/branch-heads/3538@{#1077}
OS | Mac OS X
Brave | 0.56.12 Chromium: 70.0.3538.77 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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Revision | 0f6ce0b0cd63a12cb4eccea3637b1bc9a29148d9-refs/branch-heads/3538@{#1039}
OS | Mac OS X
Brave | 0.55.22 Chromium: 70.0.3538.77 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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Revision | 0f6ce0b0cd63a12cb4eccea3637b1bc9a29148d9-refs/branch-heads/3538@{#1039}
OS | Mac OS X
Brave | 0.55.20 Chromium: 70.0.3538.67 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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Revision | 9ab0cfab84ded083718d3a4ff830726efd38869f-refs/branch-heads/3538@{#1002}
OS | Mac OS X
### Reproducible on current release:
- Does it reproduce on brave-browser dev/beta builds? yes, reproduced on Beta
Brave | 0.57.6 Chromium: 71.0.3578.31 (Official Build) beta(64-bit)
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Revision | c88fdf2a4ce19a713615ca4fbde7a0d0b5fe2363-refs/branch-heads/3578@{#427}
OS | Mac OS X
### Website problems only:
- Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? n/a
- Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/2198#issuecomment-440439619
### Additional Information
In the meantime, it looks like Firefox doesn’t have a way to export passwords natively – but there do seem to be several different extensions/tools that will do this for you. Find one that will export PWs/credentials as .CSV file, then follow the “To Import” instructions from a previous post of mine to import them into Brave:
Bookmarks can be exported/imported using the method linked to above.
You can also export and import passwords by setting a flag in Brave.
To export:
Launch Brave (the one you have your data on currently) and from main menu, navigate to Settings --> Passwords
Here, click the menu button for more options:
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Select Export and save the file somewhere accessible
To Import:
Open Brave (the one to have data imported to) and type Brave://flags/ into the address bar
Search for a flag titl…
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