Brave-browser: Passwords, Search Engine, and Autofill are not imported from Firefox

[LaurenWags]

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

[iefremov]

Lauren, could you please specify the Firefox version? Is it a 64 or 32 bit build?

[LaurenWags]

sure, @iefremov I'm using

[btlechowski]

Checked importing of passwords on Windows 7 x64(Firefox 64) and Ubuntu 17.10(Firefox 57) Brave 0.56.14.
Passwords were imported.

Autofill is not accessible for me in Firefox - this is apparently by design.

[LaurenWags]

Checked Chrome's behavior. Using Firefox version from https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/2198#issuecomment-440352917 and the below Chrome version,

Google Chrome | 70.0.3538.102 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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Revision | 4bbeebac88fdc09c97265e47c205868bbd190497-refs/branch-heads/3538@{#1077}
OS | Mac OS X

This is what Chrome offered to import

however, only history and bookmarks were imported. Passwords, search engine, and autofill were not imported.

[garrettr]

I can reproduce on macOS. The following error is probably related:

[58171:17923:1129/121002.613957:ERROR:nss_decryptor_mac.mm(32)] Failed to load nss3 libdlopen(/Users/garrettr/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/vjy5vxa3.Test Brave Firefox Importer/libnss3.dylib, 1): image not found
[58171:17923:1129/121002.618771:ERROR:nss_decryptor_mac.mm(32)] Failed to load nss3 libdlopen(/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libnss3.dylib, 1): Library not loaded: @executable_path/libmozglue.dylib
  Referenced from: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libnss3.dylib
  Reason: image not found

We don't touch any of the upstream code for importing saved passwords, search engines, or autofill form data from Firefox, so it's possible some or all of these issues also affect upstream Chromium.

[brachna]

Not all of my Firefox history seems to be imported.

[garrettr]

Not all of my Firefox history seems to be imported.

@brachna Thanks for the heads up. That's probably both a separate issue and also an issue in upstream Chromium, because we don't make any modifications to FirefoxImporter::ImportHistory for Brave.

Nonetheless, we'd like to ensure the best possible experience for all of our users. Could you share any more detailed information on the behavior your encountered? The most helpful thing would be if you could share a copy of the affected Firefox profile directory with one of Brave's engineers; if you're willing to do so, you could email me: grobinson at brave.com.

[brachna]

Yes, Brave, Chrome and Opera show the same behavior, so it must be Chromium code.
Sorry, I can't share my files.
Currently I'm trying to generate correct "History" file myself through Python.
I can tell you that looking at Firefox's "places.sqlite" file - all the information is there in moz_places table.
Brave's "History" file doesn't have all those in its urls table.

[Brave-Matt]

+1 from Community:
https://community.brave.com/t/cant-import-passwords-from-firefox-macos/49785

[neofutur]

just a +1 . same problem here,i spent 15 years using firefox and badly need to import saved logins/pass ( and also the master password feature to protect them all )

[rebron]

related and dependent on https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/6521

[rebron]

+1 from #6538