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Being asked for a password to see my saved passwords even though I've never set one with firefox

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I've used firefox on mac for years no issues. Today for the first time ever it asked me to enter a Firefox password to view my saved passwords in my logins.

I've never (to my knowledge) set up a firefox account before so have no idea what the password is.

Why am I getting this suddenly and how do I disable it so I can see me saved passwords?

I've used firefox on mac for years no issues. Today for the first time ever it asked me to enter a Firefox password to view my saved passwords in my logins. I've never (to my knowledge) set up a firefox account before so have no idea what the password is. Why am I getting this suddenly and how do I disable it so I can see me saved passwords?

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Hello   james115,

Would you please take a look at this article :

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lockwise-password-authentication-prompt

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To disable this feature :

Type in the address bar   about:config   and press Enter.
(ignore the warning)

Type in the search bar and look for the preference :

signon.management.page.os-auth.enabled

Change its value to   false.

Then close and restart Firefox.

(this preference may be removed sometime in the near future )

I hope this helps .....

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I'm running 76.0.1 on Window7. Videos on YouTube is giving me fits but no problem with password.

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Hello   james115,

Would you please take a look at this article :

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/lockwise-password-authentication-prompt

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To disable this feature :

Type in the address bar   about:config   and press Enter.
(ignore the warning)

Type in the search bar and look for the preference :

signon.management.page.os-auth.enabled

Change its value to   false.

Then close and restart Firefox.

(this preference may be removed sometime in the near future )

I hope this helps .....

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Thank you McCoy that worked - what caused it?

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james115 said

Thank you McCoy that worked

My pleasure James   -   I'm glad it worked !

what caused it?

Like it says in the article I linked to :

" This is an anti-snooping feature designed to protect your logins from unauthorized access. "

Not everybody seems to be happy with this new feature .....

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Thank you!

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james115 said

Thank you!

My pleasure   -   have a nice day !