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Firefox Password Manager

Dec 14, 2004 12:23AM PST

Why does Firefox's password manager work on some sites but not others? For example, when my bank's login screen appears and I fill in the name and password, password manager does not ask whether I want to remember the name and password. Thanks for any help.

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Re: Firefox Password Manager
Dec 14, 2004 12:34AM PST

You may be expecting that software have no bugs or things that don't work write (right).

Yes, it does that...

Bob

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Another method...
Apr 25, 2005 10:28AM PDT

I looked it over again and even with AUTOCOMPLETE off, you can use Mozilla's feature in Tools, Form Manager to save filled in values and to retrieve such.

Nice touch, but you have to dig deeper.

Bob

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autocomplete=
Feb 19, 2005 7:52AM PST

If you look at the HTML source of the web pages that don't automatically fill in, you'll probably see that they are specifying 'autocomplete="off"' in the input tags for those fields. This is your bank looking out for you. Happy It is a tag especially designed to turn off things like the password manager, and Firefox is quite correct to support it (it is not a bug, as the previous poster implied). However, it would be nice if Firefox had a feature to disable recognition of this tag. Maybe there is an extension that will do it; try searching the Firefox extensions page.

Hope this helps,

-Rob