Firefox Support Forum

Hi everyone, I would like to know the way of saving passwords. Are they saved as plaintext ? Or ciphered and locally saved ? Is the Firefox solution as safe as Dashlane or other crypto-secure ways to save passwords ? Is there a technical documentation from Firefox about this topic ? Thanks in advance for your answers ;)

Following the latest Firefox update, my computer no longer saves passwords or logins from day to day. I have checked all the settings all of which are as they should be. I have also cleared my cookies and browsing history but it makes no difference, when I log in the following day none have been saved. Please help - I am at my wits end.

Almost scammed by TeamView supposedly from Microsoft. Went into my computer to fix event logs.Wanted $109.00 now then asked if I had partial payment. So my dilemma is I don't know if what little security I have has been compromised. Not very computer literate. Installing Kaspersky today. My problem with Mozilla - tried to set master password but ok button doesn't work. Not on at all. What can I do? Thank you/

Good evening team mozilla firefox

I am having problems when logging into my account to synchronize passwords, why all the passwords I lost when I go into the account to synchronize passwords, please help me team Mozilla Firefox, because I save a lot of my dozens of passwords in mozilla firefox browser account. This is the name of my email account: x@outlook.co.id

Thank You

I have an account on the add-on site (addons.mozilla.com). I can change the password easily, but I've forgotten my username; how do I retrieve it?

Thanks.

Roger Blair

I work at a public library. And we have Firefox installed on all of our public computers. One of those computers is not forgetting a particular patron's login information for Yahoo Mail.

We've set our public computers for Firefox to clear out Cookies, Cache, Active Logins, Forms & Search History, Browsing & Download History, Saved Passwords AND Site Preferences when it closes. We use custom privacy settings, telling Firefox NOT to remember Browsing & Download history, as well as Form & Search History.

We've tried clearing ALL History, we've cleared all saved passwords. Nothing helps. Every time anyone goes to login for Yahoo on that computer, the other patron's login information is right there (the password is shown as dots, of course, but it's still there).

Anyone have any ideas on how to clear that information? Any help would be much appreciated.

I am trying to figure out why I cannot get my web page to prompt me to save my username and password. This is the information I got back when attempting to debug the password manager, but I dont know what it means:

The character encoding of the HTML document was not declared. The document will render with garbled text in some browser configurations if the document contains characters from outside the US-ASCII range. The character encoding of the page must be declared in the document or in the transfer protocol.

index.php Login Manager (content): onFormPassword for https://bigvinnys.quikorder.com/php/BIGVINNYS/m/index.php Login Manager: Counting logins matching host: https://bigvinnys.quikorder.com formSubmitURL: httpRealm: null PwMgr json: _searchLogins: returning 0 logins PwMgr json: _countLogins: counted logins: 0 Login Manager: Getting a list of all disabled hosts PwMgr json: _getAllDisabledHosts: returning 2 disabled hosts. Login Manager: Getting a list of all logins PwMgr json: _searchLogins: returning 0 logins PwMgr json: _getAllLogins: returning 0 logins.

Does this mean the password manager could not find a username/password field or something different?

I often use the hungarian OTP bank online bank service nly on my personal macbook. Nobody else uses my comp. Last time when I tried to log in, the username and the account number (these are login data) were not mine! These werent a fake numbers, these were someone else's login details. The password field is always empty and at first glance I did not realize this fake numbers, I just typed my password and the login was unsuccesfull. When I checked the account number I realized these were unknown numbers, not mine. How does it happen?

It only happens when i log into a website with a saved password. I use LastPass. I have turned this off to no avail. I have also manually entered the passwords and still the same "not responding"

Hi. I recently had to reinstall my bootdrive and software. Since then Firefox will not save my passwords. I am using a Mac Pro OS 10.6.8, Firefox is 33.1.1. I thought it was firefox, so I tried Safari and Chrome - same problem. My preferences are set to "Remember passwords for sites". There are no exceptions listed. There are no saved passwords listed either. Under Privacy > History. "Remember history"

I would appreciate any suggestions.

Thank you in advance.

Brian

Firefox does not ask me if I want to store a password for sites that do not have a stored password. I have stored passwords for several sites but can't add or change any passwords.

Every time I try to sign in it will not take username and password so I have to change it and then I forget what I changed it to.

Also why can't I watch videos on facebook I can with Internet Explorer Windows 7

Es gelingt mir nicht, mich anzumelden als Benutzer bei Mozillaund Thunderbird. Ich arbeite zwar seit langer Zeit mit Mozilla,aber ich habe bisher kein Passwort von Mozilla erhalten und kein Bestätigungsschreiben. Wie kann ich mich mit Erfolg anmelden? Muss ich dazu noch einmal Mozilla deinstallieren und neu installieren und ebenso Thunderbird ? Thunderbird fragr nach einem Passwort für mein E-Mail Konto bei t-online secureimap. [personal information hidden by moderator feer56] Können Sie helfen ? Bodo Chemnitz

We would like login screen to autocomplete user name after typing 1st letter in box, but leave password box blank so we can fill in. Web site: https://webmail.commspeed.net/src/login.php OS=Win 8.1 Thank you .... Yardbyrde

Just finished turning off Firefox's auto updates on all of my computers. Because I had to learn to get in the habit of copying my Firefox profile about once a month. Why? Because I keep losing my settings! Mainly my passwords. This is now the 3rd update in a row that has dropped my passwords. 2nd time on that computer. (Windows 8.1) .

Please figure out why this occurs. (I can't be the only one). If it was always the same computer, I would point at it. But, the other 2 are Windows 7.

OR................ maybe...........instead of the profile being updated and possibly losing files, or over writing them. At the start of the update, say it makes a backup? Just in case v. 36,37,38,39,40,41,42.................cause the same issue. At least then if the passwords are the only issue, grab the 2 files and drop them back in the profile. done.

I hate sounding like a douche, just really freakin annoyed.

When Firefox auto-updated today(after it had crashed then restarted), all of my passwords in the password manager disappeared. These have been saved over several years and I don't have a copy of some of the older ones. How do I get my passwords back?

Thanks!

I reinstalled FireFox. Previously, I was prompted to remember passwords. Now, I am no longer prompted and I must sign in to FireFox evertime I open the brower. I checked the options page but the radio button on the security tab for "Remember Passwords for Sites" is greyed out and not accessible.

How do I turn on the "Remember Passwords for Sites" feature.