You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!
When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.
When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.
Hi!
I have been using Google Chrome in OSX for a while. When I started Safari for the first time several months ago I was asked to import all my Chrome data (Bookmarks, Passwords....). Now I would like to switch completely to Safari.
Is there a way to import all data incl. saved passwords again?
Marek
Safari-OTHER, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), Import from Chrome
In Google Chrome, open a new tab and paste the following:
chrome://flags/#password-import-export
Find the "Password import and export" option and switch it from Default to Enabled
As soon as you do this you will see "Relaunch Now" at the bottom of your browser, click it. (see screen shot below)
Now in Chrome, go to Preferences, Show Advanced Settings, and under "Passwords and Forms" click on "Manage Passwords"
If you are signed into Chrome with your correct account, here is where you see all of your saved passwords. The steps before this enables the "Import" and "Export" boxes into this window.
You can export it as a .csv ... still havent figured out how to import it into keychain or safari, but at least you can import them to safari by copy/paste!
Hope this helps!
In Google Chrome, open a new tab and paste the following:
chrome://flags/#password-import-export
Find the "Password import and export" option and switch it from Default to Enabled
As soon as you do this you will see "Relaunch Now" at the bottom of your browser, click it. (see screen shot below)
Now in Chrome, go to Preferences, Show Advanced Settings, and under "Passwords and Forms" click on "Manage Passwords"
If you are signed into Chrome with your correct account, here is where you see all of your saved passwords. The steps before this enables the "Import" and "Export" boxes into this window.
You can export it as a .csv ... still havent figured out how to import it into keychain or safari, but at least you can import them to safari by copy/paste!
Hope this helps!
okay i did this and i clicked all the okays but the passwords still not on my safari, but thats fine i already manually put all my passwords into the safari. BUT now I'm worried of what did i actually do with all those usernames and passwords from when i typed in that command? Are they in a vulnerable place? or what
Hi, After running the command "
" what do we do with the keychain.txt file so that safari has chrome passwords? I mean is there a way to import them automatically?sudo security dump-keychain -d login.keychain > keychain.txt
Thank you
You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved and is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.
A bit old question but Gospo answer is quite relevant for January 2018.
Below my steps (no detailed)
In windows install Firefox, my version 43.0.1
get pass from Chrome
sync pass with Firefox (create an account)
In Mac
install firefox (57.0.3)
sync pass (use Firefox account)
open safari
sync pass from Firefox
I can confirm that the whole process cannot be done in Mac, it requires Firefox on windows (at least with above versions)
//Special thanks to B Noir
Thanks, but your solution imports bookmarks, but not passwords. This is not what I asked for.
Marek
Oh, I'm sorry for that, here's a good tutorial:
All recent versions of Google Chrome/Chromium for OSX store the passwords in the system keychain, therefore you will need to deal with the OSX built-in credential storage mechanism and not with Chrome.
You can export the passwords by running this in the terminal:
sudo security dump-keychain -d login.keychain > keychain.txt
And yes, you'll need to click Allow All as many times as you have domains in your login keychain, unless you use an autoclicker script. The link also points to a ruby script for converting to CSV.
Alternatively you can use the use the native OSX app Keychain Access (type the name in Spotlight).
//Special thanks to superuser.com
Thanks again! Does this mean, that Safari can access automatically the passwords stored via Chrome in the keychain?
Marek
The Chrome passwords are automatically saved in the OSX (iCloud) Keychain, this means that your chrome passwords will be synced with your iCloud Keychain.
Safari uses the same Keychain, so your passwords should be synced automatically.
Not that I have wanted them to, but my passwords do not sync from Chrome to Safari or vice versa. I can't find any of my Google saved passwords in the iCloud Keychain.
Me neither. I think a long time ago chrome stopped saving the passwords in apples keychain... I'd love to hear another opinion on that, but I believe the two big players apple and google are just not playing together in this. I maybe have to move to a thirdparty password manager...
luuklp is right, but he miss something, this working only on passwords that are stored in chrome and OSX Keychan, it doesn't work for passwords stored in Google.
Also AFAIK there is no working way to do this, so I have research a workaround that worked for me, it's not fully automatic but just work 😉
You could read my article here http://e01.scifi.bg/2016/10/how-to-transfer-passwords-from-googles-chrome-to-moz illa-firefox-andor-safari/
that's entirely inaccurate. can this response be downgraded? it is not automatic.
A response from over two years ago might not reflect the way it currently works.
I advise you to submit your issue as a new discussion thread as this one was solved in 2015.
How to Import chrome passwords into safari ?
