Is the Primary (formerly called "Master") password shared or Firefox synchronised between different devices?
The reason that I ask this is that I am a decrepit and ignor… (read more)
Is the Primary (formerly called "Master") password shared or Firefox synchronised between different devices?
The reason that I ask this is that I am a decrepit and ignorant old bugger in his 8th decade that has been using Firefox for nearly 25 years.
Consequently I have a lot of passwords stored in Firefox's password manager that I REALLY do not want to lose.
Unfortunately, on my main desktop machine, becoming more paranoid after a suspected identity theft attack, I decide to change the Master Password (recently re-named to Primary Password) to something longer and harder to guess or break.
Unfortunately I have forgotten what I changed it to !
(I can remember the first 15 characters but then not the ending sequence...)
However, I discovered that on an old laptop (that had not been connected to the internet for a long time - and I've disconnected it from the local Wi-Fi now) that my old password still worked and I could still see many of the old passwords (since it had not been synchronised).
I am worried that if I try and restore my passwords by now connecting to the internet and synchronising, I will then be locked out of this remaining treasury of my passwords if Firefox synchronisation then disastrously changes the old password (that I still remember) to the new password that I have forgotten - hence my question...
PS: I still have a paper record of something called an "Account Recovery Key" consisting of 8 groups of 4 alphanumeric characters (each group only contains capital letters and numerals - although one 4 character group does not contain any numerals at all, but all groups have at least one capital letter). Could I use this to recover the misremembered new password?
PPS: Don't you think it is always a bad idea to include both zeroes and letter Oh for Oscars in this account recovery key as capital letters rather than lower case letters, since they look so similar?
ie z00 or zoo is less prone to confusion that Z00 or ZOO
