Cannot import passwords from Chrome, Firefox or .csv file

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Hi, for some reason I cannot import passwords from Chrome, Firefox or a .csv file. Importing bookmarks, history and cookies works, but not passwords. While searching for a solution I found out that there is supposed to be a flag (opera://flags/#passwordimport) to enable importing passwords from a .csv file but I do not have that flag available. Is there any other way to import passwords? I am using the latest stable version of Opera (65.0.3467.42) on Windows 10 Education, build 19013.

[A Former User]

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@therealspoljo In Opera 65 the flag opera://flags/#PasswordImport has been removed. You can use the switch --enable-features=PasswordImport, it works for now.

[A Former User]

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@johnd78 You, sir, are a lifesaver. Thank you!

[burnout426]

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@therealspoljo said in Cannot import passwords from Chrome, Firefox or .csv file:

I found out that there is supposed to be a flag (opera://flags/#passwordimport) to enable importing passwords from a .csv file but I do not have that flag available.

See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1017371#c6. The flag was removed from Chromium. Flags have expiration milestones and will be automatically removed when that time comes (even if there's no UI present for the feature it controls).

Also, see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=953690 if you want to track flag removal.

[burnout426]

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For now, you can turn on the opera://flags/#temporary-unexpire-flags-m76 flag to get the opera://flags/#PasswordImport flag back.

[sheepie]

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I use a password program that makes the password for me. its a 128 bit password creator. I can use a 256 but my stuff doesn't need that level of encryption. It creates the password, names it and secures it for every program, application needing a password or key on my pc or web browsers. csv files can be corrupted. no need for them with a external password generator & safe.

[A Former User]

A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Great. Thank you so much!

[A Former User]

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@burnout426 This seems to work only in Opera 65. In Opera 66 dev, the old flags, although enabled, do not work. In the 80th chromium, the flag chrome://flags/#temporary-unexpire-flags-m76 is removed.

[urbanstrong]

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@johnd78 this just worked for me like a dream on macOS catalina, for any mac users reading this. thanks for posting.

[KoTamashii]

KoTamashii @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Its working, Thank you very much ;>

[utakandila]

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@johnd78 thank you verry much