On 13/10/18 02:24, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 5:34 AM Rob Kampen<rkampen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi list,
Did an update to firefox last night and rebooted over night.
Today I find firefox started without asking for master password - funny
me thinks.
Try to log in to a web service I use and find that my password does not
appear.
Check preferences and find that no master password is set and the
password list / table is empty.
As I do not trust my passwords to the cloud I do not save these to my
firefox profile ..... so back to manual entry for all my sites.... wow
going to be a slow month as I reset scores of passwords.
Any one else have this problem and any clues as to what causes this? I
am concerned if this should happen again, as I have saved passwords for
many scores of web services.
TIA
Rob
We've run into this.
Is it fixed in the latest firefox, 60.2.2-1?
If not, it is not clear to me how to use the
export NSS_DEFAULT_DB_TYPE="sql"
put this in .bash_profile and reboot - then check from a shell that
export shows the declaration.
I think this locks firefox into the old key3.db mode of operation.
I didn't have an old file to restore, thus lost all my logins and also
my noscript history - what a huge PITA!
Have just done the yum update for the latest firefox and now I see a
key4.db. Needed to start the new firefox and exit before it showed.
HOWEVER when I logged out and back in without the export command it all
went pear shaped again.
So reinstated the export NSS.... again, now I needed to reestablish the
master password file, it seems to make a new key3.db file and doesn't
touch the key4.db file that was originally created after the firefox
update. BUT THEN when I exit a second time it deletes the key3.db and
I'm back to ZERO.
This is so stuffed up!
Seems every second time I exit Firefox it kills the key3.db and all my
stuff is gone.
Some seriously brain dead designers in the firefox / mozilla stable at
this time.
Seems that one cannot afford to exit firefox and keep the master
password file/database.
After so many years of using it, I cannot live without a reliable
password and master password database - firefox clearly doesn't have
this capability any longer.
Moving to try Vivaldi
method mentioned. Do we restore the old key3.db file, have the user set
that variable, then start the new firefox? With that create a key4.db file
and use it from then on?
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