On 13/10/18 02:24, Phelps, Matthew wrote: > On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 5:34 AM Rob Kampen<rkampen at 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? > >