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I changed my pw but it still won't let me see logins and pw's for sites

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Whether it's lockwise or something else I don't know. I was trying to see a login and pw for a site. It wouldn't let me see it without my mozilla/FF pw. When I tried to use that it wouldn't open, wrong pw or login. Don't know which as I thought I was doing it correctly. So I changed my pw for Mozilla/FF and tried again. Still wouldn't open up the logins for other sites. 1. Is this a common problem? 2. I do not want to have to do this when I am on my home base computer. Do I have to use another pw to see my saved pw's. How can that be done? 3. After changing my FF pw, why doesn't that work? All in all a terrible waste of time that has made me second guess FF.

Whether it's lockwise or something else I don't know. I was trying to see a login and pw for a site. It wouldn't let me see it without my mozilla/FF pw. When I tried to use that it wouldn't open, wrong pw or login. Don't know which as I thought I was doing it correctly. So I changed my pw for Mozilla/FF and tried again. Still wouldn't open up the logins for other sites. 1. Is this a common problem? 2. I do not want to have to do this when I am on my home base computer. Do I have to use another pw to see my saved pw's. How can that be done? 3. After changing my FF pw, why doesn't that work? All in all a terrible waste of time that has made me second guess FF.

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Apparently you have to enter your Windows/Mac pw to access your Firefox passwords now.

Totally agree, a massive waste of time, especially for those of us who are techie enough to take care of our own security.

Alternatively, you could try reverting back to the old password manager, although this isn't a long term solution, as they'll probably remove that code at some point:

1. Go to about:config 2. Enter signon.management.overrideURI 3. Clear the value 4. Done

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Apparently you have to enter your Windows/Mac pw to access your Firefox passwords now.

Totally agree, a massive waste of time, especially for those of us who are techie enough to take care of our own security.

Alternatively, you could try reverting back to the old password manager, although this isn't a long term solution, as they'll probably remove that code at some point:

1. Go to about:config 2. Enter signon.management.overrideURI 3. Clear the value 4. Done

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