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Password Gorilla

Stanley82 — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 02:28:05 GMT

I use Password Gorilla for my password wallet. Simply select the desired entry in the wallet and ctl-p to put the selected password on the past-board then click the password field on the web site and ctl-v. It usually works great but but every now and then ctl-v fails to past. It may not be a Firefox thing but it's most annoying with a 14 character computer generated password. Any ideas other than using 1234 as a password?

Re: Password Gorilla

pg_78 — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 23:16:42 GMT

There's an extension that may help: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/don-t-**bleep**-with-paste/

This attempts to combat websites that hijack Ctrl-V to prevent you pasting. (Some websites seem to do this with password fields, due to some very misguided security thinking.)

However, I did find the extension interfered with some other sites, so I have it disabled by default.

Alternatively (I haven't tried it personally), you can set site permissions so as to prevent overriding of your keyboard shortcuts: https://superuser.com/a/1317514

Re: Password Gorilla

pg_78 — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 08:44:38 GMT

Looks like the URL to the extension got mangled. This might work instead: https://mzl.la/3IzpKg3