So I went through the trouble of creating a whole separate "profile" in 
Firefox, just for pgAdmin 4. (If you don't, you constantly have to keep 
re-entering the passwords ten times a day because it forgets them when you 
clear the browser data.)

To make a long story short, it was a PITA to set up yet another default 
Firefox, full of user-hostile garbage settings and clutter, but I had to do it. 
It was simply *impossible* to keep using pgAdmin 4 with default settings when 
it forces the use of your webbrowser to function, instead of having a proper, 
isolated GUI/window of some kind.

After a lot of wasted time and energy, sending many e-mails to this mailing 
list and individuals on it, I finally discovered a way to get pgAdmin 4 to open 
my custom profile. Everything seemed to finally be solved! I now had pgAdmin 4 
always opening in its own, separate Firefox instance/profile.

Well, guess what? I just opened pgAdmin 4 and again it asks for the damn 
password... Even though I have definitely not cleared the data in that profile. 
It seems to not happen immediately, but possibly only after a restart of the 
system. I don't know what causes it, but pgAdmin 4 must be storing the 
passwords/settings in a very flimsy and unreliable and "shared" manner. Or 
maybe Firefox is technically at fault with all its own bugs... But then again, 
pgAdmin 4 shouldn't be using Firefox in the first place!

So now I'm back at square one again: I have a database management tool which 
requires constant inputting of (empty) passwords and just won't remember them 
if I do "unknown series of actions" (reset normal profile's data and reboot?). 
I *hate* that extra click and yes, it does matter. It makes me really angry 
every time I have to open that stupid thing and get interrupted by that idiotic 
prompt for passwords, no matter how many times I tell it to save it and I don't 
clear the profile's data.

Why can't people just make software that works and doesn't harass the user 
these days? Is it too much to ask for? Isn't it already bad enough that we then 
have to do all the *actual* work, on top of fighting with our software to even 
function *at all*? Seriously. This is absurd.

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