Lesson 8 of 10. You may study lessons in any order. Complete and mark all ten before the final quiz.
Your goal
Open the login manager and identify its search and website fields without revealing a password. Explain where an actual account-password change must happen.
Before starting
Use your own authorized practice account or a harmless practice document. Identify the active application and the focused control before each command. Keep these instructions in a separate window. Never include passwords or private messages in your learning notes.
Follow the product and device version named in each procedure. A plus sign means hold the modifier while pressing the final key; “then” means release before continuing. These procedures are documentation-based and have not been tested here with the actual assistive software or signed-in reading accounts.
Understand saved passwords and sign-in
Start here: Firefox on your own trusted device. Use a practice account if you are learning password controls.
Step-by-step instructions
- Open Firefox’s application menu and activate Passwords, or type about:logins in the address bar and press Enter. This opens Firefox’s saved-login manager, not a website’s password-reset page.
- Tab to its search field and search for a site you recognize. Select the matching entry and review its website and username.
- Do not reveal or copy a password merely to identify the entry. If you intentionally request a protected action, Windows may ask you to authenticate.
- If you edit a saved entry, understand that you are changing Firefox’s stored copy. To change the actual account password, follow that website’s own account-recovery or security process, then update the saved copy as appropriate.
- Close the login-manager tab when finished. On shared devices, follow the device owner’s sign-in and password-storage policy.
Check your result
You can distinguish a stored credential from the website account itself.
If something goes wrong
A rejected login may be an old saved password, a different account, or a site-specific access problem. Verify the website address and username before requesting recovery. Do not repeatedly guess passwords.
Try it yourself
Identify the manager’s search field and website field without displaying or sharing any secret.
Documentation: Mozilla saved-login manager.
Your practice assignment
Open the login manager and identify its search and website fields without revealing a password. Explain where an actual account-password change must happen.
Check your work before marking complete
- Identify the starting application, account, device, or keyboard layout used for this task.
- Demonstrate each part of the goal above and describe the result after each action.
- Return to the saved item, passage, or starting setting when the task calls for it.
- Explain one problem you encountered or could encounter and the recovery step you would use.
- Record whether you worked independently, needed a prompt, or used the written alternative.
If the application, membership, or device is unavailable: complete a written walkthrough of this exact assignment. Include the starting context, ordered actions, expected results, and one recovery step. Label it “written alternative — not tested on the device.” The completion record is self-reported, not an instructor-verified skills assessment.
Keep your notes locally, for example firefox-lesson-8.txt. No assignment upload is required. Use your anonymous Student ID to save lesson completion below; you can undo it.
Assignment upload (paused)
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