I'm supposed to have some certificates installed in the "my certificates" section of Firefox, but there are none there. if I could figure out where there are stored (somewhere inside my profile directory maybe?) then I could try and restore from a backup.
This would be a better question for http://superuser.com, but look in your Firefox profile directory. Certificates are stored in the cert8.db file. Their corresponding keys are stored in key3.db.
If you need additional assistance finding your Firefox profile directory, detailed instructions are available at http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles#How_to_find_your_profile.
if your are on windows go to the start menu click on run and type %appdata% and go to folder Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\umqigyll.default the certificate are stored in the file cert8.db
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I want to access the Firefox Root Store under Windows (7) with Firefox 45.0.1. I found several sources that told me to navigate to C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\8ab3jkih.default\cert8.db.
Unfortunately I can't find cert8.db, although 8ab3jkih.default is present (and the only folder).
I tried accessing the DB with certutil, which works, but only gives me 4 certificates for -viewstore (should be about 150). Afterwards I tried accessing -getconfig and -databaselocations, but that just tells me that the system can't find the given file. I hoped to find the location of the database.
Yes, I already heard of NSS, but figured I should try it manually first, before working with it.
Is there anything wrong with my installation? Should I try to reinstall? What else can I do? My endgame btw is finding out whether a certain given certificate is a root certificate, so I just want to programmatically access the list of root certificates and compare them to the given cert.
First be sure you have correctly located your Firefox profile directory.
You can open the menu in Firefox (the three horizontal bars button), find the Help, then go to Troubleshooting information.... In this page, you can see the Profile directory button. Press it and there you go.
Or, another way to open this page, is to type in the direction bar:
about:support
i have created extension by using crossrider they gave me xpi & crx file which i extracted and want to install manually by copying data to the browser's extension path.
I've read & tried many posts regarding this but they are not helpful because i think some posts are old & not able to find target paths & registry.
like in many posts they say create the following key in the registry here
32-bit Windows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Google\Chrome\Extensions
but i couldn't find that on my windows registry & i am using 32bit.
i want something like i copy my extension data to the browser's extension directory & inject some registry value thats all. if it possible then How?
For firefox just add the xpi or unpacked folder to the profile folder. No need for registry so its cross platform.
It can't be automatic as spyware would be all over that. After placing xpi in the extensions folder of the profile, on next startup of Firefox it will prompt saying it found an unauthorized by user add-on, and gives user a chance to enable it, or keep it disabled.
If you want to do it without startup, just launch the file path to the xpi or unpacked folder (if unpacked folder doesnt work, then point it to the install.rdf) in the browser, user will be prompted if they want to install.
There are some registry options though: Install Firefox extension using Windows registry
In Chrome, it's no longer possible to add an extension programmatically on Windows unless the extension is actually published in the Store.
This is for security reasons: previous registry-based (and otherwise) methods were open to malware abuse.
If your extension is published in the store, you can add it semi-automatically via registry. The user will still be asked whether to enable it on the next load.
You can also install extensions silently using Enterprise policy (only if the machine is part of a Windows domain and you have admin rights on the domain policy), on other OSes, or load it unpacked for testing with the --load-extension command line switch (will not persist after Chrome is restarted).
In Chrome go to
chrome://extensions
Enable Developer Mode at the top and click on the button to load an extracted extension.
My Mac used as a developing machine was down a few days ago. It turned out an issue of the HDD. Unfortunately, I forgot to backup my private keys for iOS development and distribution. So, I can't debug or distribute my apps now. I find that the old driver is still readable as a mobile HDD, but I just can't start the system on it(I've tried all well-known tools to recover but none of them worked).
Is it possible to get my private keys back from that driver? If not, what can I do as remediation?
Thanks in advance!
Derek
I'm not an iOS developer, but I'm pretty sure the keys are handled the same was as for a Mac developer: stored in your keychain. If this is the case, and you can mount the old HD, you should be able to recover the old keychain pretty easily:
Mount the old HD, and navigate into your old home folder in the Finder.
Open the hidden Library folder by choosing File menu > Go to Folder, then entering "Library" in the dialog.
Inside the Library, open the Keychains subfolder.
Copy Login.keychain to your new HD. This would also be a really good time to make a backup copy somewhere else as well.
At this point, you have a couple of choices. You can either migrate the relevant entries from your old keychain to the one in your new account (which may be tricky, 'cause they may not be easy to spot among all the other things stored in your old keychain), or just replace your new account's keychain with the old one (which means any new passwords etc you've memorized since swapping HDs will be unavailable). For the first option:
Rename the old keychain (to something like Old Login.keychain), then double-click it to open it in Keychain Access.
Unlock the old keychain by selecting it in the sidebar, then clicking the padlock icon near the top and entering your old login password.
Select the relevant items (good luck finding them all!), and drag them over to your current "Login" keychain in the sidebar. Authenticate as requested.
For the second option:
Quit everything except the Finder.
Open your current user Library folder (the easiest way to do this is to hold the Option key, pull down the Go menu, and choose Library.
Rename the current Login.keychain to something else, then move the old Login.keychain into its place.
Log out and back in. If your old login password was different than your new one, you'll get an error unlocking the keychain with an option to fix it by entering the old login password.
I would like to add an app (STS.app, the SpringSource ToolSuite) to the list of trusted apps for a given password entry within my keychain. The list already contains some apps (svn, Eclipse.app) but I can't add the given STS.app. After I choose that file from the file dialog, the list remains unchanged. I can delete/add other apps, e.g. the mentioned Eclipse.app but not the STS.app. Both files have equal permissions, but STS.app contains the com.apple.quarantine extended attribute. I can manually remove this ext.attribute (why does it ever exists, and why it wasn't removed automatically after the first start after download them via Chrome ???) but the STS.app is still not able to set as trusted app in keychain after that. Any suggestion ?
Kind regards, Dominik
After experiencing the same problem, I created the keychain item manually and that fixed it for me.
Go to your Mac keychain, click the '+' at the bottom, and then enter your SVN URL, friendly name and password.
On a Website for our internal use i show links to local files and folders. the links are like this:
href="file://C:/example/"
href="file://C:/example/test.odt"
The Problem is now that the link to the directory does open in firefox itself with a useless directory listing. Useless because you can just see the files or open them but not copy, insert, delete...
The link to the file work normal and the file is opend by OpenOffice.
By changing the configuration of firefox and setting the following key to false I can open the directory in with explorer.exe but for the file I have to choose the right application.
network.protocol-handler.expose.file
Does someone know a way to get both to work like i want? Means that the Directory is shown by explorer.exe and all files are opened by the right application.
This can be by configuring Firefox or windows, changing the links, or even by writing a small program which opens all the file protocol correctly and will be used as protocol handler for the file protocol in firefox.
Thanks
Raffael
I did the above with small changes in Firefox 14.0.1, which works for me:
Create new boolean value network.protocol-handler.expose.file and set it to false
Create new boolean value network.protocol-handler.external.file and set it to true
Click on a link to a local folder.
In the following prompt, link to the explorer.exe in: C:\Windows\explorer.exe
Files are now open with the default application, folders are open with the Windows Explorer!
I know this is not quite what you want, but you might take a look at the "launchy" addon for firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/81/
Using this addon you can right click on a file link, go to "launchy" sub-menu, and tell it to open in explorer. This will browse directly to the folder as you want.
I want the same feature you want, however this "works" for now. I have asked the author of launchy to allow it to override the left-click behavior for certain protocols (so it would launch explorer with one click), but I don't have a response yet.
edit: Years later, I will post the solution I started using instead of Launchy:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/local-filesystem-links/
https://github.com/feinstaub/firefox_addon_local_filesystem_links
This scans for file:// links and makes them clickable. It does inject some HTML which can mess with formatting if you aren't careful, but it does the job.
In about:config You need to add a boolean value with the name network.protocol-handler.expose.file and set it to false and also create a string value with the name capability.policy.default.checkloaduri.enabled and set it to allAccess.
Now you will be able to choose C:\Windows\explorer.exe to open file links.
Tested in FF 19.0.2 in Windows 7.
Try this:
Create new boolean value with the name
network.protocol-handler.expose.file and set it to false
Create new boolean value with the name
network.protocol-handler.external.file and set it to true
Open link to a local directory and on the now appearing box, register the "file"-protocol permanently with the "file"-programm (1st entry).
There should now open the windows explorer.
You can deassociate the type "file" in the Firefox-settings (applications-tab).
After that, a link to a document (i.e. file:///x:\dir\file.doc) worked automatically for me (FF8.0).
Or You can use the Plugin "Local Filesystem Links" (DE version of the page) now.
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edit:
Link for EN version: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/local-filesystem-links/?src=search