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How to Remove All Passwords from Lockwise in Firefox

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Brave is my default internet browser. However, I have utilized Mozilla’s Firefox browser from time to time and for various reasons.

Mozilla’s Lockwise feature for password management was really interesting, but there is much left to be desired. For example, you can’t remove all your passwords at once and I suffered from duplicate password entries. Removing my passwords one by one, as presently required, was simply too time consuming.

I discovered a round about way of deleting all passwords from a Mozilla Lockwise account and I will show you how to do so within this article.

 

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How to Enable DNS over HTTPS in Firefox

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Web site domain names, like endurtech.com, are simply a human friendly representation of Internet Protocol Address (IP Address). Rather than typing in or memorizing the four sets of three numbers (IP4) for Google.com, developers came up with the Domain Name Server (DNS) protocol. When you type in any domain name, this protocol looks up the associated numerical address and tells your browser where to go. Think of it as a hidden operator directing traffic on the world wide web.

The DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol works similarly to how the normal DNS protocol works. The major difference is the added privacy that it provides by encrypting your web related request and traffic. DoH takes your DNS query and sends it to a DoH-compatible DNS server via the encrypted HTTPS connection.

This way, DoH “hides” your DNS queries inside regular HTTPS encrypted traffic and bypasses the default DNS settings that exist at the operating system level. In most cases these are the ones set by your local internet service provider (ISP). What this means is that third-party “observers” won’t be able to “sniff” your web traffic and tell what DNS queries you have run and discover what web site(s) you are accessing. Best of all, the DoH protocol works at the App level as well!

Currently, only Mozilla’s Firefox browser has released instructions for enabling use of this protocol, but you’ll have to manual enable it. See instructions below on how to do just that.

 

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Stop Browser Download from Opening Automatically

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All Chromium (an open-source browser project) based internet browsers (such as Google Chrome, Brave, Firefox and Microsoft Edge) allow for the automatic opening of a downloaded file. For example, upon downloading a .jpg image you can select to have all future .jpg images open automatically upon download.

This may come in handy for certain file types. However, this feature is most often triggered accidentally, (at least in my case). To make matters worse, there is no opportunity to undo or reverse this option from the frontend. Not to worry, within this short article I will cover how you can disable this if you no longer need to automatically open your downloaded files upon completion.

 

Always Open Files of this Type

 

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