security frustrations

Back in January, in response to a post from someone (probably Synecdochic but possibly over on Twitter), I changed my Dreamwidth password. I used the "how would you like me to generate a password for you, don't worry, you won't have to remember it" autogeneration dealio from my browser. I use Firefox these days for browsing on my laptop, but Chrome on my phone.

My phone doesn't seem to know the new password. No problem, I figured, surely I can dig up the password on my computer and painstakingly type it in and then my phone will also know it? Well, neither Firefox nor Google want to admit to knowing the new password; they're showing the old one. The Dreamwidth site autofills it for me but won't tell me what it is, unless I'm missing something. I am probably going to have to change my password AGAIN.

I am in favor of autogenerated passwords in theory (more secure) and strongly in favor of browsers or Google or whatever remembering them for me (because if I have to type it in, I'm not going to choose a secure one) and god almighty it would be nice if all this tech actually resulted in me being able to get into my accounts, lolsob.