Recently I could not find my password for Ask Fedora so asked for a passwod reset.
I went through the reset procedure 4 or 5 times from Firefox and each time it seemed that I had gone through the full procedure but afterwards when I attempted to log in using the new password on the login screen visible after the reset procedure I got the message “invalid credential”. If I tried to log in from the normal Ask Fedora login screen nothing happened, that is no login and no message to say that there was something wrong.
Eventually I switched to Google Chrome and sucessfully changed the password and logged on using CHROME browser.
Today (17/07/2024 GMT + 10) I tried logging on with the new password from Firefox and it worked.
I do not believe that Firefox needs updating as I ran the Linux Software Update procedure after discovering this problem and Firefox was not one of the components updated. I am still on Fedora 39 X86_64 Work Station on a Pentium Core i7 in case this is relevant.
This site uses single-sign-on from the Fedora account system. Can you log in to that directly at https://accounts.fedoraproject.org/, and does password reset work that way?
The only Fedora application that I use is Ask Fedora. I have never logged on by the Fedora Account system to the account system itself. I managed to change the password using Google Chrome browser.
My post is mainly an FYI for other Firefox users who encounter the same problem when logging on to Ask Fedora.
My hypothesis is that the HTML standard moves on and some web site designers implement new features that break existing browsers and there are now so many different browsers that website designers only test their sites with the most popular. As one browser becomes dominant others can no longer compete and exhibit more faults. My guess would be a relatively new HTML feature in scripting support.
Really I should post my problem on the corresponding Mozilla/Firefox maintenance site.
Thank you for your answer and apologies for my late reply.