Re: Saved Password Anomoly

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Saved Password Anomoly
\ piperson (20 Dec 2007)
. \ Aggro (20 Dec 2007)
. \ Chris Ilias (21 Dec 2007)
. \ squaredancer (21 Dec 2007)
. . \ goodwin (21 Dec 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Saved Password Anomoly
Group:	Mozilla-support-firefox
From:	goodwin
Date:	21 Dec 2007

On 12/21/2007 1:14 AM squaredancer scribbled:

> On 20.12.2007 20:41, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused piperson to
> generate the following:? :
>> One of many websites I frequent requires a UserID and Password for
>> admission. For legitimate reasons, I have 5 accounts on this site, all
>> of which are saved in FireFox (2.0.0.11) password file. Up until very
>> recently, I could touch my mouse in the User Name field and a list of
>> the 5 accounts will pop up. Upon selection, the UserID and Password
>> would populate the appropriate fields. That feature has stopped for
>> this site, but still seems to work on other sites.
>>
>> How do I reactivate that feature for this site???
>>
>
>
> the first thing to try, before you start trying to fiddle with the
> password manager, would be to call the website management and ask them
> if they have changed the security mesures... many secure sites (banks,
> insurances etc) won't allow the storing of login details and their
> automatic insertion into form fields--- for obvious reasons (anyone on
> your system could login to your account there).
>
> reg
And of course, since security is bad for us, there is a bookmarklet at
https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#remember_password
which would seem to get you around the problem,,,
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