Well... I believe I have resolved the problem. Evidently (at least I think) it had to do with Lastpass. I had set the PW setting for SM to not remember passwords since these are remembered by Lastpass. However, since the email is integrated with the browser, it created the issue of always requiring me to enter my PW. So... I went back to that setting and reset it to "remember passwords". Now that created a bit of a conflict with the websites already stored on LP. Each time I navigated to one of these, SM's password manager would ask if I wanted it to remember. I said, Never. So, until SM's pw manager has seen all of the sites to which I go requiring LP to insert the stored pw, I will have to continue to say, Never remember this site and it will learn this. I suppose this is one of the disadvantages of a suite. FF is separate from TB so this issue never arose.
Well... at least it's resolved to my satisfaction.
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