It could be the browser’s password manager triggering the system keyring to unlock.
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necrobius@lemmy.zip 1 week agoYou are definitely doing something wrong. Does it really ask for a password to open a browser? Windows always asks for a password for all that other stuff if you’re not using an administrative account.
semperverus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
necrobius@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Possibly, but that can be disabled
KingPapaDaddy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yes it does. I’ve never had to enter a password to uninstall anything from Windows before.
leburb@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Chromium has done that to me before when I didn’t setup its keyring properly. I would just hit ESC three times to get last its dialog. Now I make sure to use an empty password for its keyring because I only use Chomium when something doesn’t work in Firefox.
KDE Plasma has also asked me many times for opening its keyring and that has pissed me off. I don’t use KDE Plasma other than on one server though.
Some of the other password requests you can disable in the graphical system settings (like asking for password coming out of suspend).
For the rest, those are just the same as Windows UAC which asks whether you want to give something adminstrator privileges. There’s probably a way to set up that experience if you’d rather click ‘yes’ in a popup than type your password.
necrobius@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
If you’re using an administrator account it won’t ask for a password but it will put up a UAC prompt. If you’re not using an administrator account, it puts up a UAC prompt with a password.