2012-11-27

Firefox: You really want to store your password don't you. (partially solved)

autocomplete=off on a web page and firefox will not show the password save dialog.

I noticed some strange things happening lately to some of my pages that I visit frequently, such as that I always was able to directly click on a link and be logged in.

Power to the people! or at least freedom from pages that won't let you save your passwords in firefox.

The problem comes from the fact that some sites don't want you to make the choice but they make the choice for you.

So the solution for me was the bookmark as recommended from this page, which you press after you filled in your username and password and then log in.

"Note: This is the perfect way for other people to steal your account! So for me firefox should provide the override button themselves!"

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/764457

Ok, but this won't give you the same functionality as I had previously, you still have to start typing your username and then select from the list. Since autocomplete=off is still true for the fields.

On some webpage there is an extension mentioned that does rewrite some code on the fly. kejab, but that's long gone.