Does the master password function automatically enter other sites' usernames and passwords when you access those sites, or are they still manually entered?
Does master password enter user names and passwords automatically, or does the user still have to manually enter that info?
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Yes, after you have defined a master password, you will be prompted to enter it when Firefox needs to access your stored passwords. This will "unlock" the usernames and passwords that you've saved and Firefox will automatically fill them in for you as you browse from website to website.
When you are done using the web, you can quit Firefox to "lock up" your usernames and passwords.
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Yes, after you have defined a master password, you will be prompted to enter it when Firefox needs to access your stored passwords. This will "unlock" the usernames and passwords that you've saved and Firefox will automatically fill them in for you as you browse from website to website.
When you are done using the web, you can quit Firefox to "lock up" your usernames and passwords.
The Master Password only encrypts the names and passwords that are stored in the Password Manager. Nothing else changes and Firefox will fill the name automatically unless autocomplete="off" is used on the web page or you set signon.autofillForms to false on the about:config page.
unit91 said
Does master password enter user names and passwords automatically, or does the user still have to manually enter that info?
Does not automatically fill in anything. How can I fix this?
Did you check whether Firefox is not in Private Browsing mode?
Firefox can only fill the name and password if there is only one name/password combination saved. You can right-click in the input field and select Inspect Element to open the Inspector to see the page code of that element. If that element or its containing form has an autocomplete="off" attribute then Firefox won't fill the name as well automatically.