Losing Stored Passwords
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I have latest stable vivaldi for linux on opensuse leap 42.2, opensuse tumble weed and manjaro 16.10. In all systems all my stored passwords keep disappearing and I have to delete vivaldi profile aand start a new one from scratch. I like everything about vivaldi but can't use it when this keeps happening. I haven't yet found a possiblle cause. They're there one day and they can all be gone next time I start up vivaldi. Any clues?
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problems reading/writing to ~/.config/vivaldi ? why delete the whole profile if passwords are the only thing missing?
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problems reading/writing to ~/.config/vivaldi ? why delete the whole profile if passwords are the only thing missing?
Because I import the pws from firefox and that doesn't work once they've disappeared from vivaldi. It won't even store them if I try to enter them again.
The only way I've found is to delete profile, start again and re-import from firefox.
Too much of a hassle to go with vivaldi just yet.
Incidentally, the captcha every time I post is another hassle I could do without. -
Too much of a hassle to go with vivaldi just yet.
I'm still with vivaldi and I seem to have solved the problem by deleting Top Sites from profile defaults. With Leap 42.2 the passwords reappeared and in manjaro I copied the Leap42 profile and the passwords were there.
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settings> privacy> save passwords works for me. i don't enter captcha when i post in forum. congrats on working it out.
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Maybe it,s related to this problem : https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/10851/vivaldi-wants-access-to-keyring-on-each-launch-since-update-to-1-4-589/
Does vivaldi asks you for a password to unlock keyring at launch ?
If yes, welcome to the world of amnesic vivaldi.
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@The_Solutor said in Losing Stored Passwords:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/11872/how-to-export-backup-restore-saved-passwords-in-vivaldi
Thanks for that. I've set it up just in case.
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@petev Further instalments (with a little background)!
I have 3 distros on my PC. My main ones are opensuse tumbleweed and leap 42.2. I decided to use a little extra available space by trying out manjaro with the deepin desktop a little while ago - I hardly ever use it.
So I had my firefox profile linked to all 3 distros.
When I decided to try out vivaldi I did the same profile link.
I've now discovered that manjaro (or the deepin desktop) is losing the stored passwords. I still link the profile between tumbleweed and leap.
But every time I've reset the passwords in manjaro, it loses them again when I reopen vivaldi.
It's not important (to me, anyway) but it's intriguing because I can't find a reason.
If anyone has any ideas it may be useful to someone else. -
@Gwen-Dragon I don't just lose the passwords. I lose the entire entries. Settings tell me the are no passwords stored and if I start again I'm asked if I want to store a password I've just entered, I click 'yes' but it isn't saved. (Just in Manajaro).
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@Gwen-Dragon said in Losing Stored Passwords:
The passwords are encrypted. Vivaldi uses the OS keyring for the encryption key.
If you have not the same keyring manager on all OS and if you didn have file links to keyrings config and keyrings, fetching of logins that may fail.
But this is a more my technical guess, not a testing result.This was the answer.
I don't see any keyring request in opensuse and didn't in manjaro. But just now when I booted manjaro and started vivaldi, I got a pop-up from gnome keyring. I didn't know that I even had a password but it accepted what I assumed it would be. The stored passwords in vivaldi magically reappeared. -