Lost passwords in Firefox

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I don't mean I have forgotten my passwords rather that I no longer need to login and enter a password for forums/websites where this was the usual means of access.

I use Firefox and recently it appears to have changed re usernames and passwords. Email accounts, forums(including TP) and some, though not all, other sites normally needing a username and a password, not longer need them.

Eg, now if I click on the bookmark for TP I get straight in without needing to to use my username and password

I have just tried Chrome and the usual means of access to TP and other forums and sites are still working normally so it looks like it is an issue with Firefox

Has anyone seen anything similar and have any suggestions of how I can fix it?

Perhaps I'll just have to move to using Chrome.


Thanks

Dave
 
Thanks Suz. I looked in the Settings and can't find anything that looks as if it would cause me to be logged in automatically. Whenever I am asked to save a password I always reply 'No'

Dave
 
You should be able to delete all the ones it has saved so far. The saved passwords button in privacy and security should take you to all the ones it knows about. There's a tick box about asking to save passwords. If that is on then it asks so you can say no. I always save mine so if it has changed in an update I wouldn't notice. I think you can also add a list of websites where you never save passwords in there so it won't ask and won't save them either.

Then if you keep hitting no and then check the list in about a week you can see if it is still saving them.
 
Thanks again Suz, I will try it.

Thanks, Neville. Yes I logged out and the same thing is happening again today after the PC has been off overnight.

Puzzled why it has happened at all but also why only to some online places I visit that require a login and password.

Dave
 
Solved it!

Or rather my daughter did. Although I have a setting in Firefox never to remember the History she suggested that a recent update of Firefox might have cancelled that setting and any username and password I used after the update might be contained in the History, and the PC was using the History to take me into forums and websites automatically.

When I checked the History it had loads of stuff and the 'Never remember History' box in the settings was not checked, so it seems the update changed it.

Just put it back to the way I want it and everything is back to as it was before.

Dave
 
Glad to hear you sorted it. I use Firefox, and I can't say I've ever experienced a problem. I always get the option to remember a password when I log into a site. Surely you will have had that too?
 
If you use more than one device it's worth Syncronising Firefox, I mostly use Firefox on my PC, and an Android tablet. I also have a send PC in my darkroom, for scanning etc. Synchronising just means they share passwords, histories, bookmarks etc.

It is also worth exporting data from Firefox, I save as Libre Office spreadsheets wich I also Password protect, I do the same with Thunderbird.

Regardless of the Browser or Email Client you use it's important to backup key data.

I unisntalled Microsofts stealth software One Drive, preferring to use my own 2 4tb backup drive.

Ian
 
Thanks all. Firefox updates in the past have never done this, so don't know why this time.

Dave
 
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