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Hi, On Xubuntu 16.04 after updating firefox-locale package from the default repo, the master password was gone !!!!!???

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niranjan81
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Hi, It was not a firefox update, since I am using firefox from downloaded tar file, but the package firefox-locale-* is installed from the repo.

Only after updating this firefox-locale package the master password was gone! and saved passwords could be accessed.

This is simply not acceptable and is a pretty high security risk.

Please check into it and inform others who may or may not have noticed it.

Regards & All the best.

Niranjan D. Pandit.

Hi, It was not a firefox update, since I am using firefox from downloaded tar file, but the package firefox-locale-* is installed from the repo. Only after updating this firefox-locale package the master password was gone! and saved passwords could be accessed. This is simply not acceptable and is a pretty high security risk. Please check into it and inform others who may or may not have noticed it. Regards & All the best. Niranjan D. Pandit.

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the-edmeister
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If you are using Firefox from a Linux repo is may differ from what Mozilla releases. IOW, it is a specialized version that is created from Mozilla Firefox source code and does differ from the Mozilla "tar balls".

Best bet is to contact support for that Linux distro.

James
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Mozilla does not build the Firefox and firefox-locale packages you installed as they were from Ubuntu. Perhaps post on https://ubuntuforums.org/ for assistance.

The only Firefox Releases for Linux that Mozilla makes is www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/