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Firefox asks for Primary Password on daily basis.

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wolfgang.kempinski
wolfgang.kempinski
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I am using Firefox since several years with a PrimaryPassword for saved passwords. With Windows 10 it is used since a year or so. I regularily kept Firefox open for several days, but had no issue with it. But since some weeks firefox is asking for the Primary Password every day. This is quite anoying. After entering the password again, it continues to work, but will ask for the password on the next day again. Another post talks about a possible issue with some specific virus scanners, but I am just using Microsoft Defender Antivirus, which ships with Windows 10. I did not add any Add-on recently, so I suppose an issue with one of the latest Firefox updates (current version is 90.0.2 64-bit on Windows 10). Thanks for any tips.

I am using Firefox since several years with a PrimaryPassword for saved passwords. With Windows 10 it is used since a year or so. I regularily kept Firefox open for several days, but had no issue with it. But since some weeks firefox is asking for the Primary Password every day. This is quite anoying. After entering the password again, it continues to work, but will ask for the password on the next day again. Another post talks about a possible issue with some specific virus scanners, but I am just using Microsoft Defender Antivirus, which ships with Windows 10. I did not add any Add-on recently, so I suppose an issue with one of the latest Firefox updates (current version is 90.0.2 64-bit on Windows 10). Thanks for any tips.

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Shashank Shekhar
Shashank Shekhar
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-keeps-asking-me-primary-password

wolfgang.kempinski
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This post does not solve my issue.

cor-el
cor-el
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Could be that you experience this bug.

  • 1721084 - Firefox Lockwise repeatedly prompts for primary password

(please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html)

Marsh
Marsh
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I have been experiencing this problem since updating FF a week or two ago. Everyday, sometimes more often, FireFox asks for the Primary Password, not once by twice.

OS: Ubuntu 18.04 FF version 90.0

I have looked at other threads, tried various incantations nothing has worked so far.