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On 06/05/10 02:13, Rick Welykochy wrote: > Heracles wrote: > >> Hi Marghanita, >> >> On 05/05/10 19:23, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: >>> Did you try clearing the passwod under "set masterpassword"? >> >> Yes, but when I do this it asks for the Master Password before it will >> clear it. Sort of a Catch 22 situation! > > There seems to bee some master password fu here: > > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Master_password > > and here: > > http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t10416-forgotten-masterpassword.html > > involving either: > > 1. type in location: "chrome://pippki/content/resetpassword.xul" > > or more desperately > > 2. remove the files that store the encryption key (key3.db) > > With either method, you lose all stored passwords. > > Another option of course is to create a new profile. > > cheers > rickw > > Thanks Rick, That worked. I started Thunderbird in a terminal with the command: thunderbird -chrome chrome://pippki/content/resetpassword.xul A small window popped up allowing me to do the reset. The master password has been wiped. Thanks again Heracles PS. My problem with Firefox has been solved (sort of). I removed some ot the addons and plugins and reinstalled it and them and now all is back to normal speed. Unfortunately my internet seems to have slowed quite a lot. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkviC3sACgkQybPcBAs9CE/oyQCfeIYmmAlBayiYLRE8+c2dLj3W 71IAoJIToDBdWrISGtGzoCd2pmwSrygF =ZMzb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
