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Remembering passwords and bookmarklets
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| History Fan 2006-11-07, 7:12 pm |
| Firefox has an excellent password manager, but there are a few websites
that are configured to not remember your user ID's and passwords.
Fortunately, there are bookmarlets you can use to force Firefox to remember
them. This tweak has worked fine for me with FF 1.5.
I have since upgraded to FF 2.0, and the bookmarklet JavaScript tweak
still works....except for one website: my American Express log-in screen.
When I visit the site, my user ID and password are visible. But when the
site finishes loading, the info is gone, and I have to re-type it. Any
ideas why this one particular website would not work with the passwords
bookmarklet? I did with FF 1.5. I have deleted the password from FF's
memory, visited the American Express log-in site, and re-applied the
bookmarklet several times. Still doesn't function properly.
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| Ed Mullen 2006-11-08, 1:12 am |
| History Fan wrote:
> Firefox has an excellent password manager, but there are a few websites
> that are configured to not remember your user ID's and passwords.
> Fortunately, there are bookmarlets you can use to force Firefox to remember
> them. This tweak has worked fine for me with FF 1.5.
>
> I have since upgraded to FF 2.0, and the bookmarklet JavaScript tweak
> still works....except for one website: my American Express log-in screen.
> When I visit the site, my user ID and password are visible. But when the
> site finishes loading, the info is gone, and I have to re-type it. Any
> ideas why this one particular website would not work with the passwords
> bookmarklet? I did with FF 1.5. I have deleted the password from FF's
> memory, visited the American Express log-in site, and re-applied the
> bookmarklet several times. Still doesn't function properly.
>
>
Can't say for sure what the problem is. However, Amex has had a habit
of changing the URL for the logon page and it screws the password
manager. Check your passwords very carefully for any Amex-like link and
delete it. I recently had some problems with this. You might also want
to delete any Amex cookies as well.
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Ed Mullen
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Confidence is the feeling you have before you really understand the problem.
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| History Fan 2006-11-13, 8:13 am |
| "Ed Mullen" <ed@edmullen.net> wrote in message
news:YoidnW5Jh93W-szYnZ2dnUVZ_qOdnZ2d@comcast.com...
> History Fan wrote:
>
> Can't say for sure what the problem is. However, Amex has had a habit of
> changing the URL for the logon page and it screws the password manager.
> Check your passwords very carefully for any Amex-like link and delete it.
> I recently had some problems with this. You might also want to delete any
> Amex cookies as well.
>
I went ahead and changed my Amer. Express password, deleted all
cookies, but the glitch remains. Strange that it would only happen at this
one site.
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| History Fan 2006-11-13, 8:13 am |
| >> Can't say for sure what the problem is. However, Amex has had a habit of
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> I went ahead and changed my Amer. Express password, deleted all
> cookies, but the glitch remains. Strange that it would only happen at
> this one site.
>
I ran FF in safe mode, to see if one of the extensions might be
causing the trouble. But no change.
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| Ed Mullen 2006-11-13, 8:13 am |
| History Fan wrote:
> "Ed Mullen" <ed@edmullen.net> wrote in message
> news:YoidnW5Jh93W-szYnZ2dnUVZ_qOdnZ2d@comcast.com...
As I think about it, I still think it might be a redirect issue. That
is, if I go to http://americanexpress.com I am redirected to
https://home.americanexpress.com/ho...rsonal_cm.shtml (which may be
different depending on your locale). What happened to me recently was I
had bookmarked an Amex logon page and they changed the redirect. So,
password manager didn't know I wanted it to fill in the info.
[vbcol=seagreen]
> I went ahead and changed my Amer. Express password, deleted all
> cookies, but the glitch remains. Strange that it would only happen at this
> one site.
Did you delete your logon and passwords from Firefox's password manager
as I suggested? You said you "changed" your password but you didn't
mention deleting all mentions of amex in the pw manager.
Go into Tools - Options - Privacy - Passwords - View Saved Passwords.
Look for anything that has "americanexpress" in the URL and highlight
and Remove it. Close that dialog. Click the Cookies tab. Click View
Cookies. Do the same: delete any cookies that have "americanexpress" in
them. Exit the dialog, exit Options. Close FF and restart it. Go to
http://americanexpress.com and let it resolve the redirect. Check the
location bar and note the redirect location.
Now run the bookmarklet and log in and have FF remember the logon and
pw. See if this gets you working again.
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
http://mozilla.edmullen.net
http://abington.edmullen.net
I tried to backup my hard drive but I couldn't figure out how to put it
in reverse
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| History Fan 2006-11-13, 8:13 am |
| > Did you delete your logon and passwords from Firefox's password manager as
> I suggested? You said you "changed" your password but you didn't mention
> deleting all mentions of amex in the pw manager.
>
There is only one reference to American Express in FF's password
manager, and I have deleted it several times already. But the glitch
remains.
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| Ed Mullen 2006-11-13, 8:13 am |
| History Fan wrote:
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> There is only one reference to American Express in FF's password
> manager, and I have deleted it several times already. But the glitch
> remains.
Sorry, but I'm at a loss. the only thing I can suggest at this point is
to create a new profile. Try to access the Amex site and have FF save
your logon info. Close FF. Try again. If that works I would suspect
an extension or maybe a corrupted file. Also, make sure your pw file is
not marked read-only (long shot).
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
http://mozilla.edmullen.net
http://abington.edmullen.net
If the world was a logical place, men would ride horses side-saddle.
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| History Fan 2006-11-13, 8:13 am |
| > Sorry, but I'm at a loss. the only thing I can suggest at this point is
> to create a new profile. Try to access the Amex site and have FF save
> your logon info. Close FF. Try again. If that works I would suspect an
> extension or maybe a corrupted file. Also, make sure your pw file is not
> marked read-only (long shot).
>
Does FF 2.0 remember your user ID and password at the American Express
website?
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