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I cant disable "FIPS" I enabled it but it keeps asking me for the passoword and now i cant disable it, can someone please help

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sebastian869
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I tried to enable what i though was a service to remember all my passwords and i though the way to do that was "FIPS" I entered a long and strong password. Now for some reason it keeps asking me for that password every 5 mins it seems. Even if im not logging onto a new page or one that requires passwords. I cant seem to turn this feature off . I think its called fips can someone please help.

Thanks, Sebastian

I tried to enable what i though was a service to remember all my passwords and i though the way to do that was "FIPS" I entered a long and strong password. Now for some reason it keeps asking me for that password every 5 mins it seems. Even if im not logging onto a new page or one that requires passwords. I cant seem to turn this feature off . I think its called fips can someone please help. Thanks, Sebastian

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sebastian869
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You have requested an encrypted page. The web site has identified itself correctly, and information you see or enter on this page can't easily be read by a third party.

it also started to pop up with this every time i go on a encrypted site. I think that's because of me trying to turn off FIPS and changing settings in the "encription" tab.

cor-el
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If you can't disable FIPS then delete key3.db and signons.sqlite and any exiting signons#.txt files from older Firefox versions in the Profile_Folder.

See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Password_Manager#Troubleshooting