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Clarify that Thunderbird profiles can also be decrypted
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unode committed Mar 17, 2016
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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions README.md
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#### About

Firefox Decrypt is a tool to extract passwords from Firefox profiles.
Firefox Decrypt is a tool to extract passwords from Firefox/Thunderbird
profiles.

It can be used to recover passwords from a profile protected by a Master
Password as long as the latter is known.
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and it will prompt for which profile to use and the master password of that
profile.

If you don't keep your Firefox profiles on a standard folder you can call the script with:
If you don't keep your Firefox profiles on a standard folder you can call the
script with:

```
python firefox_decrypt.py /folder/containing/profiles.ini/
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profile_path = "~/.mozilla/firefox/"

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
description="Access Firefox profiles and decrypt existing passwords"
description="Access Firefox/Thunderbird profiles and decrypt existing passwords"
)
parser.add_argument("profile", nargs='?', default=profile_path,
help="Path to profile folder (default: {0})".format(profile_path))
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