Importing passwords doesn't work + Opera account acts weird

[vvilku]

vvilku last edited by

Searched the forum, but seems to be my problem is not mentioned yet.
I installed Opera GX and decided to import passwords from Chrome. None were imported.
I thought that maybe the issue is that I don't have an opera account, so I created one and tried to import passwords from Chrome again, however, I can't, because I have to change the password to my Opera account. The problem is, I created the Opera account with my gmail account so I don't have an opera ccount passowrd because my authentication is handled by google.

Does this mean I will not be able to have my passwords in Opera? If that's the case, then the browser is useless and that's a major flaw in the app design.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @vvilku last edited by

@vvilku You don't need to have an Opera account to be able to import saved passwords from Chrome

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

In Chrome, goto the URL chrome://password-manager/settings and click "Download file" to export your passwords to a CSV file. Then, in Opera GX, goto the URL opera://settings/passwords, click the 3 dots to the right of "Saved passwords", click "Import passwords" and point it to the csv file.

[vvilku]

vvilku @leocg last edited by

@leocg said in Importing passwords doesn't work + Opera account acts weird:

@vvilku You don't need to have an Opera account to be able to import saved passwords from Chrome

How do you get by the password encryption requirement then? Can't import them if you don't set up encryption, can't encrypt them if you don't have an account.
P.S. Just realised I posted in the wrong forum, that should be in Opera GX, can you please move the topic to the correct forum?

@burnout426 - That worked, thanks, but that's a clumsy workaround.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @vvilku last edited by

@vvilku said in Importing passwords doesn't work + Opera account acts weird:

I installed Opera GX and decided to import passwords from Chrome. None were imported.

This is most likely due to changes in Chromium where Opera needs to update/fix the importers so they work again. Others have reported that importing doesn't work, so it's probably nothing on your end.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @vvilku last edited by

@vvilku Saved passwords are encrypted using your OS login credentials.

[vvilku]

vvilku @leocg last edited by

@leocg I think you need to tell that to the browser then, because it doesn't seem to know that...

Probably because I have no credentials on my home PC, as I'm the only user anyway.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @vvilku last edited by

@vvilku Yep, it may the cause of the problem.