passwords not saved if you restart
Greetings All !
I've got a half dozen PC's at work that are used to host wall monitor displays. I connect into them by VNC if I need to manipulate them in any way.
They typically run Firefox all day, and I've had a PHP script running in the browser that rotates through a series of web-pages hosted by in-house servers.
We've had this issue for several months now and I've just decided that I've had enough, I want it solved:
When you shut down firefox and restart it, the passwords for the various sites it hits are no longer there / you have to input them manually again. (This is a complete pain if one of the boxes reboots, for some reason.)
I've noticed that it's not really ASKING to SAVE the passwords. There's no little checkbox being presented that offers to do that. Just the username and password fields. When you input that data, it takes it just fine and you don't have to enter it again... until Firefox restarts, that is.
I've tried running Firefox in Safe Mode. The problem still exists. I've tried completely resetting Firefox. The problem still exists.
Any thoughts / ideas?
Thanks!
-= Dave =-
Gekose oplossing
Some websites you will auto login, but other not beacause the code page, but
You can use addons to auto login:
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Did you check if Firefox is seted to remeber the history?
Go to Tools >> Options >> Privacy >> Firefox will: change to Remeber history.
Also this can be a problem with places.sqlite, try go to your profile and delete it.
You can also try do a clean reintall:
Certain Firefox problems can be solved by performing a Clean reinstall. This means you remove Firefox program files and then reinstall Firefox. Please follow these steps:
Note: You might want to print these steps or view them in another browser.
- Download the latest Desktop version of Firefox from http://www.mozilla.org and save the setup file to your computer.
- After the download finishes, close all Firefox windows (click Exit from the Firefox or File menu).
- Delete the Firefox installation folder, which is located in one of these locations, by default:
- Windows:
- C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox
- Mac: Delete Firefox from the Applications folder.
- Linux: If you installed Firefox with the distro-based package manager, you should use the same way to uninstall it - see Install Firefox on Linux. If you downloaded and installed the binary package from the Firefox download page, simply remove the folder firefox in your home directory.
- Windows:
- Now, go ahead and reinstall Firefox:
- Double-click the downloaded installation file and go through the steps of the installation wizard.
- Once the wizard is finished, choose to directly open Firefox after clicking the Finish button.
More information about reinstalling Firefox can be found here.
WARNING: Do not run Firefox's uninstaller or use a third party remover as part of this process, because that could permanently delete your Firefox data, including but not limited to, extensions, cache, cookies, bookmarks, personal settings and saved passwords. These cannot be recovered unless they have been backed up to an external device!
Gewysig op deur Diego Victor
Well, after uninstalling and reinstalling... it did not prompt me to save the first password (which was basically the network signon to just allow me to pullup the page)... but it DID prompt me to save the second one (which was for a signon for a site that it pulls up via an IFRAME. I told it to save that, of course.
Odd... I just closed it out and reopened. It prompted me to save the FIRST password this time... but then, for the next one, it popped up the box but with the data already filled out.
Maybe I'm getting confused: If it "saves" the password, is it SUPPOSED to prompt you the next time with a pop-up box, with username and password already filled-in, and then you just hit "ok" ?? I was thinking that if it saved the username and password, you'd never get prompted again about it.
I'm just trying to rig Firefox so a human doesn't have to go in and do anything the next time it restarts. And I've got, like, 6 monitors / PCs that I'm trying to do this for.
Gekose oplossing
Some websites you will auto login, but other not beacause the code page, but
You can use addons to auto login:
Gewysig op deur Diego Victor
Thanks very much! I'll start testing some of those addons!