Stored Passwords

I wish to salvage my stored passwords from Mozilla and use them in Firefox can anyone tell me what file they are stored in?

if mozilla is still working,firefox should pick them up.otherwise just open mozilla,go to preferences,privacy & security,passwords,manage stored passwords.then click on show passwords

andy

if mozilla is still working,firefox should pick them up.otherwise just open mozilla,go to preferences,privacy & security,passwords,manage stored passwords.then click on show passwords

andy
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Many thanks for your reply Andy and I apologize for the delay in replying as I have been fully occupied with other things.
I obviously have not worded my question very well as you have not given me the answer I was looking for. I assume that saved mozilla passwords are stored in a file somewhere in the users home folder(.mozilla?) but I am unable to identify which file it would be.
When I updated I did a clean install having previously saved my home folder, on another hard drive, so it was a case of copy and paste to transfer files over to the new system. I have been successful with everything but passwords because I cannot identify the password file.
Still hoping that someone can point me in the right direction.

John.

they are in file signons.txt
I normally backup the whole firefox folder so i have all the extensions installed and so on, but if you migrate from mozilla, then it won't probably work and for passwords saving purpose you might (not sure) need to copy also the following files:
formhistory.dat
localstore.rdf
I'd suggest to try the first, signon.txt, and then in case that does not work, the others too
formhistory.dat i think is needed to let the username appear automatically when you visit one page, otherwise you should type it, and then signons.txt will retrieve the password for it.
Maybe you'd also want to backup cookies.txt so if you are using them for some sites, that's ready to use

they are in file signons.txt
I normally backup the whole firefox folder so i have all the extensions installed and so on, but if you migrate from mozilla, then it won't probably work and for passwords saving purpose you might (not sure) need to copy also the following files:
formhistory.dat
localstore.rdf
I'd suggest to try the first, signon.txt, and then in case that does not work, the others too
formhistory.dat i think is needed to let the username appear automatically when you visit one page, otherwise you should type it, and then signons.txt will retrieve the password for it.
Maybe you'd also want to backup cookies.txt so if you are using them for some sites, that's ready to use
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Many thanks for this I will investigate.

There is also an add-on called Password Exporter that can make backups of your stored password in xml files.