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After liking what I heard about using a master password, esp. when using a dated OS like W7, I created a MP. I then stepped over to my W10 machine and did the same. A few days later I tired of the MP popup, and decided to remove passwords for financial sites, etc., and just leave the saved passwords in my browser. A week later I went to my W10 machine and the MP query popped up. I couldn't, and can't remember, the last 3 characters of my MP.

Is it possible to reset the MP without the MP? I don't care about losing the stored passwords that are on the W10 machine. I'll deal with them individually. Help? Thanks.

Forgot Primary Password Or Never Had One in the First Place! I Don't Know Or Remember Regardless I Can't Log in! Can You Fix This For Me Please ? I Can't Fix It at my End At all! I Try Only To Fail!

I forgot the primary password on one of my devices, but I still remember the password for my other devices. I want to be able to reset the password on one of the devices, but I am worries that I will lose all of my saved passwords on all of my devices.

I thought I'd try enabling the Primary Password feature to make my stored passwords more secure, and it works on my desktop, the problem is it doesn't seem to work at all on Firefox for Android and all my stored passwords are still freely available on my phone without entering the Primary Password. That makes it a pretty pointless feature unless you only use Firefox on a desktop. Also my phone is more likely to get stolen and leak all my stored passwords than my desktop.

after using firefox for many, many years, today i keep getting a request for a primary password. i have never had to have this before & do not know why is being asked now...when did this become a requirement & how do i get my password information back? i have never set up any kind of password for firefox. i have tried current passwords & old passwords i would have used & it will not accept anything.

When I start windows 11 on my laptop and open my browser page I no longer have the option to activate my saved passwords. How do I activate my saved passwords manually?

Good day! Just this afternoon, I started experiencing some strange behavior in my browser. Google asks me to solve a captcha every 15 minutes, and when I access services like YouTube Music or even Google Calendar, it asks me to enter my browser master password (I have it enabled), even though my Google account password isn't there.

I've updated my IP address three times, and everything works fine on another PC on the same network, as well as on my phone with the same browser.

The window doesn't always appear, but usually two or three times at a time.

I've also noticed a pattern: for example, on YouTube Music, video previews don't load until the window is closed.

I don't know what the issue might be, but updating to the latest version didn't help. This problem practically prevents me from using the browser. What should I do?

The master password should either pop up right away, or not pop up at all until sensitive information will be accessed. It sometimes pops up on a delay, which is annoying, as I may already be typing something into the URL bar only to find that the second half of what I typed is now into the master password entry.

During this time of delay, I am apparently still able to access web browser functionality. This creates inconsistent protection and makes me question what the master password is protecting. I thought I would only have to enter it before autofill, but entering it at startup implies it protects the entire functionality of the web browser, not just passwords.

But, if it protects the entire functionality of the web browser, then why does it pop up after a delay, which is sometimes long enough for me to have already started to use the browser, meaning that, if my operating system account is shared but my browser is private, someone already could've made a social media post in my name in the time before they are required to enter the master password, if they are fast enough.

Really think about your intention and please establish or make clear your philosophy with this confusing and annoying design choice. Is there a way to either stop the delay, or to make it only pop up when accessing autofill functionality, or to make the browser entirely inaccessible until the pop-up grabs focus?

Why is a little black box showing up every few minutes asking me to sign into Mozilla. It just started doing this recently. How do I get rid of it? It says to use my main password which I assume is the one I use to access my computer. It doesn't work. When I hit cancel it goes away, but pops up a few minutes later. It is very annoying.

Suddenly to use Passwords list on Firefox Windows is demanding I sign into Windows, where previously I used the special "master" password I use only on Firefox. I want to disable this intrusion.

Hi folks, my primary password suddenly stopped working when trying to look at saved passwords today. I've changed it to a new one, needing to type in the old password to do so. That worked, which verifies I had the correct password to begin with.

I then updated the browser to the latest version. When I type in the new password on startup of Firefox it works fine to reopen all the old tabs.

However when I go to look at any of the saved website passwords, the problem reoccurs again. I type in the new password but the box shakes, refusing it.

How can it be that the primary password lets me in fine when starting up Firefox, yet I get the shaking login box when I try to look at any saved website passwords? Surely if the primary password works for one it should work for the other?

Thank you, Shane

When I want to view passwords Firefox is asking windows credentials which I don't have. Now I can't get access. It used to ask for my Firefox password what happened.

I am not concerned with anyone in my household gaining access to my passwords. If I somehow give a scammer remote access to my computer, does creating a primary password prevent that person from seeing any user names or passwords that I may have accidentally stored on my computer? I am concerned with third party scammers, not anyone physically gaining access to my laptop.