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ive had my laptop hard drive formatted due to having lots of problems, since having it back and installing version 3.6.8 i dont get any prompsto save my usernames and passwords

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joe7232
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ive had my hard drive formtted on my laptop since having it back ive reinstalled firefox 3.6.8 which works fine apart from when i log into sites i dont get the promp at the top of the screen to save passwords .ive been through the tools>options >security and made sure the save password box is ticked and still it does nothing , any help would be appreciated

ive had my hard drive formtted on my laptop since having it back ive reinstalled firefox 3.6.8 which works fine apart from when i log into sites i dont get the promp at the top of the screen to save passwords .ive been through the tools>options >security and made sure the save password box is ticked and still it does nothing , any help would be appreciated

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cor-el
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Did you make a backup and restored files from the previous setup?

For the passwords you need two files: key3.db (encryption key) and signons.sqlite (names and passwords).

See: 

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Password_Manager#Backing_up_and_restoring_passwords