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Mozilla Password Recovery Changelog

What's new in Mozilla Password Recovery 5.9.0 Build 503

Apr 24, 2020
  • Support for Lockwise password encryption when extracting passwords. The Lockwise password manager (on desktop, this is a part of Firefox 70+) has got new and enchanced protection
  • based on AES-256 cipher and SHA-256 hashing algorithms.
  • Support for the new encryption when recovering Firefox v70+
  • Master passwords.
  • Some enhancements.

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 5.8.1 Build 495 (Nov 15, 2018)

  • New versions of Firefox (58+) and other browsers based on Mozilla code store encryption keys in key4.db file now. This version of MPR has got support for the new database format.
  • A problem parsing visiting history was fixed. Sometimes the program was unable to display the history of visited URLs.
  • Fixed minor bug adding new dictionary when searching for a master password.

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 5.7.0.487 (Jul 24, 2015)

  • Support for new password database format.
  • Fixed an incorrect Russian translation.

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 5.6.2.470 (Sep 16, 2013)

  • Some improvements in Master Key password recovery (Artificial intelligence attack).
  • French language interface was updated.
  • Minor interface bugs fixed.

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 5.6.1.467 (May 1, 2013)

  • SQLite bug fixed. Cookie explorer, history and autocomplete data viewers were not functioning correctly sometimes.
  • Security update

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 5.4.0.450 (Jun 9, 2010)

  • General update

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 5.3.4.444 (Feb 4, 2010)

  • General update
  • Search improvement. The program's find dialog has a drop-down menu with last remembered searches.

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 5.3.3.443 (Oct 1, 2009)

  • Serious bug fixed. The program failed unexpectedly on some Windows XP and Windows XP SP2 machines. The problem was in LoadLibrary function which caused BSOD on some types of DLLs

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 5.3.2.442 (Sep 14, 2009)

  • The program's built-in dictionary now contains top 500 most frequently used passwords
  • Two Artificial Intelligence attack bugs were fixed. The first problem was in improperly treating and parsing TheBat! e-mail client database (when collecting passwords for AI attack.)
  • Another one was in Firefox decryption module - some passwords were not decrypted.
  • To view URL history, MPR now parses places.sqlite file as well.

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 5.2.0.426 (Jun 15, 2009)

  • Windows 7 compatibility
  • Compatible with WinPE environment now
  • A minor fix in language retrival module

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 5.1.0.420 (Mar 19, 2009)

  • Firefox 3.1 support

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 5.0.1.418 (Jan 12, 2009)

  • Smart dictionary error.

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 5.0.0 (Dec 26, 2008)

  • Artificial Intelligence attack,
  • several improvements and workarounds

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 4.10.0.391 (Nov 1, 2008)

  • Better Firefox, thunderbird, K-Meleon, SongBird, Beonex, Flock and Netscape detection.
  • Some minor decryption bugs fixed

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 4.8.4.378 (Sep 4, 2008)

  • Firefox 2.x Master Password decryption bug

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 4.8.3 (Jul 26, 2008)

  • Preliminary attack optimization
  • Combined dictionary attack
  • Pass-phrase attack

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 4.4.0.327 (Jun 20, 2008)

  • Firefox 3 support
  • Form history deletion bug. 'Remove all items' command didn't work properly
  • ASN.1 parser fixup (Master Password decryption engine)

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 4.0.0.290 (Apr 26, 2008)

  • Minor brute-force and mask attacks enhancement
  • The program can download additonal dictionaries from Internet now.
  • New data decryption module
  • Master Password recovery speed was increased by 20-25%
  • Utf decoding bug
  • A lot of fixes in data recovery process
  • More accurate Master Password detection
  • Fixed misc. bugs in history viewer and AutoComplete data viewer dialogs

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 3.0.1.199 (Dec 21, 2007)

  • Mutated password generation speed was increased slightly in the Smart Dictionary analysis
  • Portability support
  • Passcape Compressed Dictionaries (PCD) support
  • New rulesets for the Smart Dictionary analysis have been added. Now it became very effective against some types of passwords with national characters.
  • Passcape Password Prediction system has been implemented
  • History Viewer tool added
  • OpenDialog minor bug fixed

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 2.4.0.144 (Aug 1, 2007)

  • Cookies Explorer feature was added

New in Mozilla Password Recovery 2.3.0.140 (Jul 19, 2007)

  • The program is now compatible with Firefox 2.0, Thunderbird 2.0 and SeaMonkey 1.1.
  • Windows Vista compatibility
  • New interface language
  • Now the program can decrypt *nix and mac master password files