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Please Help - I'm doing something wrong. Firefox makes me log in to websites when I have saved the password and kept the cookies. Why? Obviously I don't understand firefox's password procedures.

In my settings my user name and password are saved for specific sites. (others I have set to Never remember) Password options are set as follows: Ask to save passwords - ticked Fill usernames and passwords automatically - ticked Suggest strong passwords - ticked Suggest Firefox Relay email masks to protect your email address - ticked Show alerts about passwords for breached websites - ticked Require device sign in to fill and manage passwords - not ticked Use a Primary Password - not ticked Allow Windows single sign-on for Microsoft, work, and school accounts - not ticked

Cookies and Site Data settings are: Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed - ticked In the “Exceptions”/ Exceptions for Cookies and site data option all the web sites which I want to keep and log in automatically are listed with “allow” In other words, I am trying to delete Cookies by default, but keep them for these specific websites, as an exception.

I therefore expect Firefox to automatically log me into those specific websites when I visit them So why does Firefox make me log in again every time I visit those specific websites?

Hello Dear,

I hope you are well. I would like to recover the passwords I previously saved in Firefox, but I am now finding it difficult to access them after deleting the old Windows system and installing a new one.

Hello,

I have been trying to get into my other Firefox account through the browser by resetting the password but every time I attempt to make a new one it errors. "Unexpected Error". I did have a recovery key enabled on the account but when I tried to look at it it wouldn't show so I removed in hopes that it would resolve my issue. Nope! I'm able to get into the Firefox account with my linked Google account so I don't have to use the Firefox credentials. I would appreciate it if someone could me with my issue. Thanks!

My PC was accidently got blue screen of death and cannot boot window anymore only way is reinstall window. and then I sing in to my mozilla account but I forgot my password so I have to reset it. but I didn't know that you have change the sync system that need to use recover key and yes now I lost all my 10years sync. this cannot recover anymore? or how can I recover it. Honestly this recover key thing is shit in google chrome you won't lost anything from reset the password. this make me really sad and upset. so is there any way to get my sync back? or it lost forever? if it lost forever I would say goodbye to firefox thanks.

Firefox will not start on my PC, so in the process of troubleshooting, I reset my password to get into this Mozilla support site. I saw the notice about losing sync data, so I followed the instructions. I changed the password, then went to my iPhone, where Firefox is running. However, when I tried to create the backup, it would not take the new password. I presume that since it was running on the old password (which I do not remember), which is the password required for the backup. Next, I logged out of Firefox on my iPhone and logged back in with the updated password. Now my data seems to be gone.

I have two other devices running Firefox, iPad and another PC. I need to know how to create a backup that I can restore my sync data.