Password visible permanently in the master password login field

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A version of my master password is permanently stuck, visible, in the login screen for all to see.
In other words, in Firefox on my laptop I click the BW icon and the verify identity screen drops down. The problem is the master password field is already populated with a row of black dots which anyone can read by pressing Show. The visible password isn’t exactly the master but it’s close. It is a mis-type I entered and then corrected.

It’s only on my laptop. My phone is all OK.

It isn’t part of Firefox history, it doesn’t seem to related to Firefox extention permissions - how do I get rid of it please??

Many thanks

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Hello @Andy3142 - welcome!

It sounds like either Firefox is autofilling the password, or something else is.

Have you checked your Firefox Settings to ensure that Logins and Passwords are disabled?

If that isn’t it, I would check other possibilities. For example, if you are on a Mac, Keychain may be autofilling the password.

Let us know how you make out. Cheers!

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Thanks @dh024, that got an immediate result. But still questions left.

I found that if in Firefox settings I un-checked “Autofill logins and passwords” The problem vanished, if I re-checked that it came back. So Firefox is the problem - thank you!

However, I had previously thought of Firefox. But what I’d done was to search the list of Firefox saved logins (all of them, manually) and found that Bitwarden was not listed. I now checked again and it looks like the BW login is called
moz-extension://e12d8a62-0d15-4726-b033-ecd1f73b1fab
I’ve now deleted this and also put it in the list of exceptions and the problem is fixed.

The question remains how, if I wanted to put BW in the list of FF login exceptions to not offer to save, I would know this magic name.

However that’s unimportant now, so this issue is sucessfully closed. Thanks again.

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