I was prepared to blame it on an update, but the most recent one was a week ago.
Thanks for the tip KelvinD; I think I'll call the present arrangement a new start and move on from here. It's kinda therapeutic in a way, because there was quite a lot of stuff which was outdated.
Finally, in an average day's browsing, I would probably use up to around twenty sites, several of them multiple times - many of these require password entry each time. In total, there are probably about 50 or more sites which I use at some time which require password entry. For the financial ones I'm prepared to use manual entry on each occasion. For the others (including this one), I'm prepared to let technology work for me. Precautions are in place to minimise the risks of unauthorised access to same; I'm not at liberty to disclose what they are. I'm mostly comfortable with that
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