I forgot we all hate Mozilla here... Something isn't working as expected? Must be evil and sus. The behavior has always been like this. Do I think this is how things should work? No. But this is what an issue tracker is for, not everything comes with bad intentions all the time ffs
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
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I came here asking if anyone else experienced this and if it's a known bug. If you don't like what I have to talk about then leave. And if I hated Mozilla then I wouldn't have paid for services that they abandoned.
They're sus now. 💀
Because a program acting in an unexpected way is suspicious...
No it's not, what you are describing is a bug. Your argument implies that a bug in a video game should be considered suspicious behavior. Du you also think it's sus if your iPhone camera glitches out?
Check your passkeys. You might still have one still in the OS credential manager.
Honestly, they probably store certain config in the local/mozilla folders or whatever and Firefox also does and thus was signed in. Though, this is all speculation.
Are you using Firefox Sync with the same e-mail address? I believe, that all gets put into the same account system.
No I do not use any Sync functionality. I purposely don't sync my browser because I don't want any company to know my bookmarks.
Firefox Sync is end-to-end-encrypted. Mozilla cannot see your synced data.
Either way, I have no idea how this is supposed to happen without you entering your credentials into Firefox at some point. Even if Mozilla wanted to be sus, they couldn't just guess which account is yours.
I had a weird thing, I abandoned a reddit account after a 3 day ban over a month back. I cleared the cookies, presumed it was logged out. Cleared all cookies, cache, history, all of that like 20 times, and after clicking on a few reddit posts as search results to get links to streaming shows, I noticed it had me logged in somehow.
I never even set it up to automatically log me in, or even fill in my username. I had to type in my username and then select my password from the manager by hand.
How is it it apparently kept me logged in for a month, or at least every time I found a reddit thread on a search engine and clicked on it? Am I hacked?