Hi,
After a recent upgrade (about 1 week ago), Opera browser is no longer
storing passwords, and unfortunately it seems to have erased all the stored ones. It still asks to store the password when I log in to a website, but doesn't store anything.
The version that I am running is:
Opera One (version 132.0.5905.73)
I read that it might be a problem with libpam-gnome-keyring, so I tried reinstalling that, but there is no change.
Does anyone have an idea how to resolve this?
-Chris


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Christopher Judd wrote:

After a recent upgrade (about 1 week ago), Opera browser is no longer
storing passwords, and unfortunately it seems to have erased all the stored ones. It still asks to store the password when I log in to a website, but doesn't store anything.

The version that I am running is:

Opera One (version 132.0.5905.73)

Have you tried asking Opera? Debian doesn't supply an opera
package.

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On Tue, 2026-06-16 at 10:02 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:

Christopher Judd wrote:

After a recent upgrade (about 1 week ago), Opera browser is no
longer
storing passwords, and unfortunately it seems to have erased all
the stored
ones.ÿ It still asks to store the password when I log in to a
website, but
doesn't store anything.

The version that I am running is:

Opera One (version 132.0.5905.73)

Have you tried asking Opera? Debian doesn't supply an opera
package.

+1 on Dan's answer.

Am also replying because I'm running into a similarly different issue
with Firefox that I install straight from them. This URL features the
issue I started receiving ~two weeks ago on an HP G6 (Dandelion)
laptop:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fix-bookmarks-and-history-will-not-be- functional

So far, I've been lucky that restarting Firefox instantly fixes my
experience. I've seen reports of users losing their data entirely.

The only thing I can figure is a package is running an update when I
log on. For whatever reason, it seems to hold certain data files
hostage.

One can't help but see the experience as concerning because:

1) I haven't ferreted out the culprit software (yet).

2) It repeatedly affects the kind of personal information that an
unscrupulous "Nosey Parker" would be seeking to monitor a user's
behavior.

Afterthought: A policykit "already running" type of message occurs when
that HP G6 is booted up. The bookmarks/history locked data error seems
to most often occur if I've been too lazy to close that policykit alert
window before attempting to open any other applications.

The only glitch that negates that connection in my mind is the
policykit message has been brandishing its annoying self for a long
time while this bookmarks/history thing began a couple of weeks ago.

Again, yes, this is an apples and oranges kind of comparison. Both do
still (recently) involve security/privacy and dynamic user-specific
information on web browsers.

Best wishes..

Cindy :)
--
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
* runs with birdseed! *

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I asked on one of the Opera forums, but haven't heard back yet.


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On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 12:07?PM Christopher Judd <chrisjudd80@gmai
l.com> wrote:

After a recent upgrade (about 1 week ago), Opera browser is no longer sto

ring passwords, and unfortunately it seems to have erased all the stored on
es. It still asks to store the password when I log in to a website, but do esn't store anything.

The version that I am running is:

Opera One (version 132.0.5905.73)

I read that it might be a problem with libpam-gnome-keyring, so I tried r

einstalling that, but there is no change.

Does anyone have an idea how to resolve this?

This looks like one of the better hits from Google: <https://www.reddit.com/r/OperaGX/comments/1dk77o1/password_saving_and_auto filling_stopped_working/>.

It does not look like Debian packages Opera. Maybe the Opera folks
can provide better answers.

Jeff

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On Tue 16 Jun 2026 at 11:51:40 (-0400), Cindy Sue Causey wrote:

Am also replying because I'm running into a similarly different issue
with Firefox that I install straight from them. This URL features the
issue I started receiving ~two weeks ago on an HP G6 (Dandelion)
laptop:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fix-bookmarks-and-history-will-not-b

e-functional

So far, I've been lucky that restarting Firefox instantly fixes my experience. I've seen reports of users losing their data entirely.

I get that error quite frequently in the past ?couple of ?weeks/months.
I just close the window and try again. It never happens a second time.

The only thing I can figure is a package is running an update when I
log on. For whatever reason, it seems to hold certain data files
hostage.

That's very unlikely to be the case with my m.o. It only happens with
my personal FF browser that I run as myself, and which I only use for financial, health, and government sites. Whenever I finish/logoff
from whatever task I was doing, I open a new tab, close all the others (typically one/two), and then close said tab.

And that would never be just before I close down, as first I would
file any documents and screenshots in their appropriate directories,
and then back them up (ie copy to my server) before going back to
"normal" work.

All my "regular" browsing is performed completely separately, as a
different user, and that FF browser is never closed, but either
killed (after a problem) with kill -1, or by killing Xwindows
before I shut down the computer (no DE here). I've never seen this
in-use file error on this "regular" browser.

I've just assumed that someone will eventually fix this bug.

Cheers,
David.

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