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How did my SAVE PASSWORD disappear and why?

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How did my SAVE PASSWORD disappear and why? Please RECOVER, AUTO FILL PASSWORDS are suddenly lost.

How did my SAVE PASSWORD disappear and why? Please RECOVER, AUTO FILL PASSWORDS are suddenly lost.
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Firefox 80+ has a logins-backup.json file in the profile folder that can be used in case of issues with logins.json or to undo an accidental delete/update of a password. You can check if you can find this logins-backup.json file in the profile folder or in a backup. You can open logins-backup.json file in a firefox tab to check if you can find records for the hostname of missing logins (hostname shows as plain text; username and password are encrypted).

Make sure to keep a backup of the current logins.json and logins-backup.json before replacing logins.json with logins-backup.json with Firefox closed.

You can use the button in "Help -> More Troubleshooting Information" (about:support) to go to the current Firefox profile folder or use the about:profiles page (Root directory).

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