firefox passwords missing

can you give us more information like when it happened, anything you might think may have caused it?

Hi, working fine this morning nothing I can think. When I went back on line
to check e-mails all my passwords were gone, completely blank? had update
was gnome power xxxx?,
Bri.

2009/1/28 nhasian <email address hidden>

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in Firefox under Edit->Preferences->Privacy->Private Data do you have it checked to clear your data everytime you exit firefox? How about under the security tab? the save password for sites?

Hi, no its not checked, have to accept its a ( I hope ) one off.
Bri

2009/1/28 nhasian <email address hidden>

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I try to keep to passwords i can work out using a simple algorithm i tweak it a bit to suit but still it'd probably be better if i just wrote down all my passwords on a bit of paper - then no-one from the internet could compromise them and (more relevantly) i could remeber them more easily.

Good luck
Tom :)

PS Hindsight is great ;)

Solved.
Only because I reinstalled passwords.
Thanks .
Bri

I similarly had all my passwords disappear after updating from Firefox 2 to 3 (OS 10.4). It just dawned on me why this happened.

Firefox 2 had a pluggin (System proxy 0.2) which let me swap locations (work vs home) so I didn't have to change proxy setting. Firefox 3 said the that pluggin wasn't compatible so I ignored it. This meant that Firefox 3 wasn't able to see my keychain passwords & displayed no passwords.

I just found all my long list of missing passwords in the 'Keychain Access'. :-)
No doubt there may be similar paradigms with different causes.