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changing passwords in Firefox

Citchie

I have changed my password on an account but when I check it after the change it still shows my old password under Firefox. Even when I search Firefox listing for my passwords.

I have changed my password on an account but when I check it after the change it still shows my old password under Firefox. Even when I search Firefox listing for my passwords.

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Hi Citchie,

Firefox only updates a saved password when it spots the password being changed on the site itself, so if you changed it somewhere Firefox didn't recognise — for example through the site's app, or on a page laid out differently — the old one stays saved, and Firefox will keep filling that in.

You can fix the saved entry yourself:

1. Go to Settings → Privacy & Security, then click Passwords under Logins and Passwords (or type about:logins in the address bar). 2. Find the site in the list and click it. 3. Click Edit, replace the password with the new one, and click Save Changes.

After that, Firefox should fill in the new password. If you ever see a prompt asking whether to update the saved login when you sign in with a new password, choose Update — that is Firefox offering to do this same job for you.

If the site still fills in the old password afterwards, check whether there is a second saved entry for the same site (perhaps under a slightly different address) and remove the out-of-date one.

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