Re: Frustrated with FF's Password Manager

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Frustrated with FF's Password Manager
\ MAK (29 Jun 2007)
. \ Patti Sinclaire (29 Jun 2007)
. \ Paul B (29 Jun 2007)
. . \ MAK (29 Jun 2007)
. \ Nir (29 Jun 2007)
. . \ MAK (29 Jun 2007)
. . . \ Nir (29 Jun 2007)
. \ Jerry (29 Jun 2007)
. . \ MAK (29 Jun 2007)
. \ »Q« (29 Jun 2007)
. \ Ron Hunter (30 Jun 2007)

6 msg	Update to 2.0.0.4 offered, but I am NOT happy

Subject:	Re: Frustrated with FF's Password Manager
Group:	Mozilla-support-firefox
From:	Ron Hunter
Date:	30 Jun 2007

MAK wrote:
> Good morning.
>
> In this mozilla.support.firefox newsgroup I did a search in Thunderbird
> for "password" and it brought up all the threads about passwords. I read
> every single one of them, many of which date back to early 2006.
>
> I share in the problem many people are having about Firefox's Password
> Manager not offering to save passwords. In many of those threads was the
> response to use that "remember password" bookmark. That bookmark doesn't
> even work for me.
>
> Gmail, Yahoo and several other non-banking sites I can't save passwords
> for. I have FF options set to remember, I have form data set to
> remember, I even allowed cookies and even tried the bookmark.
>
> Nothing worked.
>
> I am using FF 2.0.0.4. Does anyone have an other ideas around this
> annoyance? Oh and speaking of annoyances, I also have that FF extension
> installed called Annoyance Remover which is supposed to FORCE password
> saving, that's not working either.
>
> This is really frustrating to say the least as I am sure all of you know.
>
> Has there been any recent discoveries or workarounds about this issue?
> When will Mozilla allow us the option of hand-entering website addresses
> and user names and passwords for sites manually into the Password
> Manager? If we have this ability, and the website has the two form
> elements on the page, FF should autofill those elements regardless of
> the websites wishes, they should autofill them as if we were typing them
> manually.
>
> I know this is a tiresome topic to see reappearing all the time, but it
> is still unresolved in my opinion.
>
> Mozilla should just remove the password manager if they can't force it
> to work everywhere.
>
> Sorry for my frustration I know this isn't Mozilla's fault for the most
> part.
>
> Mark
Many sites use various means to PREVENT browsers from saving their
passwords as they consider this an unacceptable security risk.
Personally, while I understand their point of view, I feel that this is
the choice/right of the USER to determine. Banks are particularly
difficult about this, and they often change their page coding to prevent
saving passwords. Other sites save their passwords in the cookies file,
and this bypasses the browser's password code. This is a continuing
'war' between browser coders, and security conscious website coders.

--
Ron Hunter rphunter
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