How to import / export passwords between Vivaldi and Chrome

[harrisonchu88]

@Para-Noid If I'm wrong someone can correct me on this, but I believe Chrome doesn't have any method to export as .html natively (you'd have to use something like ChromePass). Even then, it looks like when you import from just an .html file it only imports bookmarks, not passwords.

@Gwen-Dragon I believe the bookmark function is being brought up because the dialogue window does include password import, but only for some of the options.

[Pesala]

@Gwen-Dragon On Windows there is an option to import Passwords from Chrome.

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[Ayespy]

@Pesala Yes, but only if Vivaldi detects Chrome on the machine, which it may not for an atypical install.

[Pathduck]

Could probably use junction links to trick Vivaldi into recognizing a non-standard Chrome install path.

But it's not for the faint of heart

I would definitely delete the link after import since you never know when Chrome gets installed anyway by some sneaky method, and nuke your Vivaldi profile...

mkdir %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome
mklink /J "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data" "<Alternate chrome install path>"

[harrisonchu88]

@Pathduck That's the same as a "symbolic link", right?

Actually, for a work-around couldn't someone write an .ahk or .bat script that sets up the redirection, runs the import, then closes it immediately after? No install nightmares that way, whether it be surreptitious or accidental

[Pathduck]

@harrisonchu88 said in How to import / export passwords between Vivaldi and Chrome:

@Pathduck That's the same as a "symbolic link", right?

Yep, junction links are basically the same as symlinks. It's safe to delete the link itself, it will not delete the target.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/mklink
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

Actually, for a work-around couldn't someone write an .ahk or .bat script that sets up the redirection, runs the import, then closes it immediately after? No install nightmares that way, whether it be surreptitious or accidental

Well, automating the creation of the link is not hard, but I'm not even sure if it's possible to automate the import in Vivaldi. There'd need to be some kind of command line option, to specify what browser to import from and so on.

Unless one wants to go the route of writing a AHK script, yes it's possible - but that would be in a whole another ballgame. I think for cost of time versus actual use, it would not be worth it... IMO

[Para-Noid]

@harrisonchu88 Yeah, you're right. Chrome does not allow the user to export bookmarks as html or otherwise. It's been about three months since I last opened Chrome. Didn't Chrome allow the export of bookmarks as html at one time?

[Ayespy]

@Para-Noid said in How to import / export passwords between Vivaldi and Chrome:

Chrome does not allow the user to export bookmarks as html or otherwise.

Actually, it does. HTML is how it exports them.

[KenjiSan]

Vivaldi running on the Linux OS does not auto-import your passwords from Chrome when you set it up. This is good information about how to do it manually. Many Thanks!

[godly75]

Hi fellows,
I tried this solution, the flag is active, but no import available.

When I go to vivaldi://settings/passwords/ I get to the first settings screen and in the passwords page, it doesn't appear either.
Alle users are imported but the passwords are empty, when I make the password field readable it appears to be empty

I'm on 3.0.1874.38 (Stable channel) (64-bit)

I restarted already several times. Even tried the shortcut solution.
Please help me get my passwords back, it's pretty useless otherwise.

Update:

I was able to find the settings page by going to chrome:// rather than vivaldi://
There I have the improt function now. But... Nothing happens when I import and they are also empty

UPDATE: it worked, but now it's all double :D, the empty and the filled ones
and ctrl+shift+del > delete passwords doesn't affect...