On 13/10/18 02:24, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 5:34 AM Rob Kampenrkampen@kampensonline.com 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?