How do I move my Authenticator config from one FF profile to another?

[xpseudonym]

Question

Hello, Thank you for Authenticator - I do so like not having to rely on my beep'ing phone!

I've moved my gnu/linux flavour and Firefox has installed itself to a new profile in the process - so, how do I import my config for Authenticator so I can continue to login to my various.

I've moved my /browser-extension-data/authenticator@r01 without effect - but it was empty anyway.

Many thanks.

[Rayquaza01]

Hello,
By far the easiest way would be to use the Import and Export buttons on the extension's options page. If you still have the entire profile from your old ~/.mozilla/firefox, you can move that profile to ~/.mozilla/firefox and launch that profile from about:profiles (or by running firefox -P -no-remote). You may need to add an entry to profiles.ini. Then you can export your data from the options page in the old profile and import it to your new profile.

By the way, /browser-extension-data hasn't been used for storing extension data since 2018 (https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/08/03/new-backend-for-storage-local-api/). WebExtensions use IndexedDB, but I'm not entirely sure where on disk the extension data is stored.

[xpseudonym]

Hi Ray (I assume that's correct?)

Thanks for that - just had to think about it a different way...

With the upgraded Authenticator I'm asked for a password before authentication codes are revealed - that's okay, but - and it's a big BUT - the password is revealed in clear text in the toolbar icon!!! That's not the case in the Add-on preferences where the password entry is hidden. Should I report this as a bug or am I missing something to ensure passwords are hidden?
Thanks
Morgan.

[Rayquaza01]

The password being in plain text is because of #16 and #23. There was a bug in Firefox on linux that caused the popup to immediately close when a password field was focused. I'm reopening #23 because it seems I never actually changed the text field back to a password field.

[xpseudonym]

Thanks.