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On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 17:55 +0100, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
> seems that, right now, firefox encript this information with keys 
> generated in the build, so you can not expect that this may survive to a 
> simple portupgrade or reinstall

Thanks for this - I'm glad you told me rather than me finding this out
the next time I rebuilt it! :-)

If saved passwords won't survive a reinstall then I'm not going to be
able to switch to firefox as my primary browser just yet.  Ho hum.

Thanks again,
jez
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