When you’ve got passwords roaming free across Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, tracking them down can feel like rounding up escaped zoo animals. One’s in a tab you closed last week, another’s deep in Chrome’s vault, and Safari’s just sitting there, refusing to talk to Chrome altogether. Maybe you’re switching to a new computer or trying to get your digital life in order — either way, it’s time to wrangle the whole crew. Moving saved passwords from Chrome to Safari is doable, but not exactly plug-and-play. Safari won’t talk to Chrome directly, so we’ll need to call in Firefox as the translator-slash-zookeeper. With a little browser juggling and one helpful extension, we’ll get all your passwords safely into their new enclosures. Let’s do this.
Step1:
Open Google Chrome and go to: chrome://flags/#password-import-export (This will enable importing and exporting your currently stored Chrome data, like your passwords)
Step 2:
Next, go to Chrome > Settings > Passwords (it can take a bit for the list to load)
Step 3:
Find the section labeled Saved Passwords and select Export now and save the file on your desktop.
Step 4:
Open a new terminal window, navigate to your desktop and enter the following command: cat | awk -F ',' '{print $2","$3","$4}' > passwords-prepared.csv
Step 5:
Open the password-prepared.csv file with a text editor. You must change its first line: “url,username,password” to “# Generated by Password Exporter; Export format 1.0.4; Encrypted: false” (this step will change the Chrome saved password into a suitable format for the Safari browser as well as any other browser that uses the Firefox format)
Step 6:
The previous step generates an appropriate password file but Firefox removed the password import tool. Install the Firefox extension extension named Password Exporter (https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/firefox/addon/password-exporter/).
Step 7:
To import them into into Firefox, open Firefox, go to Preferences > Security > Import/Export Passwords Then import the password file you created on the desktop in the above steps.
Step 8:
To import them into into Safari, open Safari, go to “File”, select “Import From” and then press “Passwords”.
Your Chrome passwords will have been successfully transferred into Firefox & Safari.