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Firefox upplying insecure password

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bhardy1954
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I was trying to register with a new website. Firefox suggested dG@5 as the securely generated password, which being only four characters is obviously insecure. Not surprisingly, it wasn't acceptable, as the website required at least eight characters. I tried deleting the password in both fields and trying again, but Firefox kept suggesting the same insecure password. Even after restarting the registration process I was offered the same password. I have used this feature many times previously, and have never had this happen before. Why has this happened? Is there anything that I can do to stop it happening again? Is there anyway that I can force Firefox to come up with a different password if I don't like its first suggestion? And, is Firefox's system really secure, if it does this?

I was trying to register with a new website. Firefox suggested dG@5 as the securely generated password, which being only four characters is obviously insecure. Not surprisingly, it wasn't acceptable, as the website required at least eight characters. I tried deleting the password in both fields and trying again, but Firefox kept suggesting the same insecure password. Even after restarting the registration process I was offered the same password. I have used this feature many times previously, and have never had this happen before. Why has this happened? Is there anything that I can do to stop it happening again? Is there anyway that I can force Firefox to come up with a different password if I don't like its first suggestion? And, is Firefox's system really secure, if it does this?

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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That is strange, the suggestions usually are really long. Could you test on a different site and see whether it works normally there?

Firefox didn't used to put symbols in the suggestions, just capital and lower case letters and numbers. Makes me wonder whether there might be a bug with certain symbols (either at random or at certain sites that validate the symbols) causing the text to cut off?

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bhardy1954
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Thanks for your prompt response. I'd successfully signed up to the Guardian website (15 character password from Firefox) a few days ago, so I've just tried again using a different email address. Again, I was offered a 15 character password. So, it has worked correctly on this website. The password Firefox supplied a few days ago did include symbols / punctuation - #^+:, It's probably irrelevant, but the website where I had the problem was one where Firefox was, for a different email address but on the same laptop, already storing my wife's password. I eventually managed to register on the target website by inventing a password myself. I had no problem in copying this from a Writer document and pasting in the the website's sign-up page.

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