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Apparent duplicate password manager

I use Firefox and ESET Antivirus on Windows 10 I am using the Firefox password manager with a Primary Password. When I open a window to a bank or other sensitive site ESE… (read more)

I use Firefox and ESET Antivirus on Windows 10 I am using the Firefox password manager with a Primary Password. When I open a window to a bank or other sensitive site ESET Antivirus Banking and Payment Protection automatically opens a new Protected window. The password manager then fills in the login details for the site or offers a choice from a listbox if I have more than one login for that site without me having to provide a password for the password manager. Clicking on "View Saved Logins" from the listbox opens the password manager Search Logins window also without me having to enter a Primary Password. I can now view Usernames AND Passwords without having to enter any Primary Password. This appears to be an out of date copy of the passwords in a unprotected file since it is missing a few recently created entries. When using an standard Firefox browser window everything seems to work as expected with the Primary Password being required to activate the Pasword Manager and the recently created entries are present. One other point which may be relevant is that when viewing the same username/password in both the valid and the duplicate versions the window addresses are identical. This suggests to me that the Password Manager keeps the username/password data and a list of that data as separate enties and that what I have is actually one set of data with two seperate lists of the data. This makes me nervous about trying to delete anything from the unprotected list in case I am deleting the original data. This state of affairs may have come about when I was setting up Firefox Sync and inadvertantly Sync-ed Password Manager with Primary Password turned off. I have since turned off Sync but with no effect on th problem. Is there any way of deleting this apparent additional password list? The alternative seems to be to just uninstall Firefox and ESET Antivirus and re-install and hope that all the data is cleared out in the process and the re-import a password file.

Asked by mike2000 7 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 7 months ago

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Can no longer download

Out of the blue, I can no longer download files using the download arrow. I used to get the prompt asking where to download the files but now don't get anything. I'll get… (read more)

Out of the blue, I can no longer download files using the download arrow. I used to get the prompt asking where to download the files but now don't get anything. I'll get a zip.part file on my desktop, where I have my downloads saved, but that's it. I've updated Firefox, restarted, uninstalled/reinstalled and nothing works.

Asked by jdky500 7 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 7 months ago

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How do I get my bookmarks in alphabetical order?

How do I get my bookmarks in alphabetical order? I have tried doing it in "Manage Bookmarks" and I get them in the correct order there, but when I go back to the Bookmark… (read more)

How do I get my bookmarks in alphabetical order? I have tried doing it in "Manage Bookmarks" and I get them in the correct order there, but when I go back to the Bookmarks list, nothing has changed. ???

Asked by miket9043 7 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 7 months ago

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Why do I have 16 tasks running in for Firefox in Task Mgr?

I have 4 tabs open, and my computer is running and running... come to find out, FF is running 17 tasks in the background... why? And what can I do? Thanks! my specs Int… (read more)

I have 4 tabs open, and my computer is running and running... come to find out, FF is running 17 tasks in the background... why? And what can I do?

Thanks!

my specs Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.21 GHz 16.0 GB (15.9 GB usable)

Asked by pmbankowski 7 months ago

Last reply by zeroknight 7 months ago

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After closing a tab, go to the last active tab, or the tab to the left

I use this addon Select After Closing Current But apparently I'm not using it correctly. When I close a tab, it defaults to the tab on the right, which, to me, IMO, i… (read more)

I use this addon

Select After Closing Current

But apparently I'm not using it correctly.

When I close a tab, it defaults to the tab on the right, which, to me, IMO, is counter intuitive.

And just as bad, when I restart the browser, it opens to the tab on the right much of the time, instead of the current active tab.

Is there something I can do can do about this?

Asked by noel_envode 7 months ago

Last reply by Terry 6 months ago

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Questins regarding unusual behaviour of YouTube within Firefox for Ubuntu

For the past few days, the YouTube website has behaving unusually in Firefox. The volume and play/pause controls don't work. The picture in picture mode does not work. An… (read more)

For the past few days, the YouTube website has behaving unusually in Firefox. The volume and play/pause controls don't work. The picture in picture mode does not work. And most importantly, the search bar is broken. Whenever I type something and click the search button or press enter, the value entered disappears and I have to type it all again, only that this process goes on for infinite number of times and so, I can't even search for anything on YouTube.

Asked by TheQuietKid 7 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 7 months ago

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PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

Really too much PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk does NOT have issues. this error message occurs regularly ( and sometimes with amazon.de) Please fix… (read more)

Really too much PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk does NOT have issues.

this error message occurs regularly ( and sometimes with amazon.de)

Please fix the bug that causes this, or allow a option to ignore the (non existent) error.

Asked by mark.plews 7 months ago

Last reply by zeroknight 6 months ago

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I don't understand what I'm doing

I'd like both my devices to be safer for one I don't want to use Chrome and I can't seem to get Chrome to stop or get off my devices not sure how to do that I like to hav… (read more)

I'd like both my devices to be safer for one I don't want to use Chrome and I can't seem to get Chrome to stop or get off my devices not sure how to do that I like to have Gmail and using the Gmail app is fine with me but it seems that my mail keep going to different places I don't know how to stop that and I tried to read everything that is in the stuff that I'm downloading but it seems that I am still downloading stuff that is way out of my league and I'm not trying to make anybody mad and I don't want to be judged for my p*** I've been trying to read how can I ensure that I'm the only one looking at the stuff I'm looking at

Asked by rollingtcp72 7 months ago

Last reply by Paul 7 months ago

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Firefox on Windows not reopening previous tabs

There is a serious problem here! I have the latest Firefox browser for Windows installed: 118.0 (64-bit). Under Settings, I have the box checked that says: Open previous … (read more)

There is a serious problem here! I have the latest Firefox browser for Windows installed: 118.0 (64-bit). Under Settings, I have the box checked that says: Open previous windows and tabs.

It isn't working. All my tabs keep getting wiped out. I am a developer. I primarily use Firefox because it is the only browser that knows how to display bookmarks in a column. I have many tabs open at one time. I need to pick up where I left off. Now this is completely unusable. Can someone get this back to normal operation?

Please!!

Asked by don107 7 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 7 months ago

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Google Cloud Text to Speech not working on FF

Hi, I have a Wordpress site with Google Cloud Text to Speech. It works on Chrome. And it has worked on Firefox. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this? Thanks! … (read more)

Hi,

I have a Wordpress site with Google Cloud Text to Speech. It works on Chrome. And it has worked on Firefox. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?

Thanks!

Asked by 2up 7 months ago

Last reply by zeroknight 3 months ago

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new tab request opens new window even though 'open links instead of new windows' is ticked

After a crash and new Firefox update today (September 28, 2023), Firefox is now opening a new window along with every new tab. If I close the newly opened window, the ta… (read more)

After a crash and new Firefox update today (September 28, 2023), Firefox is now opening a new window along with every new tab. If I close the newly opened window, the tab on the browser 'main' firefox window also closes. The 'open links instead of new windows' is ticked. I have tried refreshing Firefox and also uninstalling and reinstalling. Running on Windows 10. Please help! Thanks, Robin

Asked by baxibadboy 7 months ago

Last reply by cor-el 7 months ago

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Thunderbird: Folder with 119 message, need to send all 119 messages to an e-mail from Local box called "Fraudfiles"

Thunderbird: Folder with 119 message, need to send all 119 messages to an e-mail from Local box called "Fraudfiles". I can not see any way to do this in Thunderbird e-m… (read more)

Thunderbird: Folder with 119 message, need to send all 119 messages to an e-mail from Local box called "Fraudfiles". I can not see any way to do this in Thunderbird e-mail.

Asked by Clois Beckwith 7 months ago

Last reply by Thilo.Ertel 6 months ago

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How to stop Firefox shortcut from being added to desktop

Every time Firefox updates, a Firefox shortcut is added to my desktop. In delete it because I already have a shortcut for it in the taskbar. How can I stop this from happ… (read more)

Every time Firefox updates, a Firefox shortcut is added to my desktop. In delete it because I already have a shortcut for it in the taskbar. How can I stop this from happening? I have tried turning off automatic updates and manually updating the browser and it still creates a shortcut. It's been happening for over a year and I am close to uninstalling Firefox completely and switching browsers.

Asked by C BPresutti 7 months ago

Last reply by Terry 7 months ago

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bug report for ff for android: 118.0 (Build #2015975539). caching probem

Hi, This is a bug report for firefox for Android 118.0 (Build #2015975539), When you open a website it shows the cached version. You have to manually refresh to see the… (read more)

Hi,

This is a bug report for firefox for Android 118.0 (Build #2015975539),

When you open a website it shows the cached version. You have to manually refresh to see the latest version.

Thank you

Asked by winklepicker 7 months ago

Last reply by Paul 7 months ago

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Weird lines on screen when I watch youtube

So on certain websites when I zoom in these weird white lines and boxes appear on the screen. they only appear when zoomed in and when I put my cursor in certain places. … (read more)

So on certain websites when I zoom in these weird white lines and boxes appear on the screen. they only appear when zoomed in and when I put my cursor in certain places. Usually when I move my cursor they disappear but I was able to catch these. Im on firefoxes most recent update on a lenovo laptop with windows 11. As far as I know this only happens in firefox, another thing is I recently updated my drivers due to screen flicker.

Asked by brody.lenon 7 months ago

Last reply by zeroknight 7 months ago