Issue 435153  has been merged into this issue.

Still occurs with Chrome Version 53.0.2785.116 m (64-bit) and Firefox version 49.0.1

+isherman: maybe this can be addressed in the scope of issue 638977?

I don't think this is a problem with the format as initially mentioned.
The format in the latest version of Firefox still seems identical to what firefox_importer.cc already supports.

However from what I can tell, loading nss3.dll from within Chromium has started failing, which seems to be causing this issue.

Interesting, perhaps chrome unintentionally blocks nss3.dll. Flipping status back to Untriaged for Windows team to investigate.

Argh, or so I thought until I noticed I had 64-bit Chromium and 32-bit Firefox installed, which explains why loading the dll failed. :(

Using 64-bit Firefox, importing Firefox passwords to Chromium works perfectly fine as is!
From what I can tell Mozilla vends the 32-bit version of their browser as default for some reason, which might be causing this issue for some people.

Pretty sure this is a non-issue at latest tip of master with Firefox 53

Can someone confirm and then close?

Aaah, interesting!

+wfh

it might be nice to have a dialog or some kind of meaningful error message that displays what's happening here and gives advice on what to do (i.e. install Firefox 64-bit). I'm not sure I will have time to do this though.

If this is not super-urgent, I might be able to take a shot at it :)

Still reproduces. I can't get passwords to import into 64-bit Chrome (tried M58 and M60) from 32-bit Firefox (54.0b4).

Flipping back to Available to get this out of the triage queue, since it doesn't seem high priority.

That's expected though - where would the 64bit nss3.dll come from to facilitate that import?

The only option here would be to bundle a 64bit version of nss3.dll (and all its dependencies) with Chrome, which doesn't sound like a great solution :(

we can't bundle any of these DLLs. All we can do is point to a help center article or in-product information to tell the user that they need to install 64-bit firefox if they want to import bookmarks into 64-bit Chrome. It's far from ideal.

On second thought, I'll actually take a look at this.

 Issue 179688  has been merged into this issue.

Assigning to pbos@ to do as a first bug.

Firefox has started auto-migrating 32-bit installations on 64-bit systems (confirmed by bsep@ who just updated his 32-bit installation and got 64-bit). I couldn't install a 32-bit Firefox even when trying to download the 32-bit installer from their webpage.

That being the case I think this is a disappearing population (64-bit Chrome + 32-bit Firefox) and we can WontFix it. It's not worth the engineering time or added complexity. Existing Firefox installations will be upgraded to 64-bit and Chrome should be able to upgrade from those.

Cross-reference, looks like this has kicked in for some percentage of beta users: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1274659