I just started using Firefox as my main browser.  A great feature is 
that it saves the log in information (user name and password) for most 
sites.  But there are quite a few sites where Firefox does not save the 
log in information (e.g. American Express).  Why is it?  Is there anyway 
to manually save the log in information?  Thanks.

tenplay wrote:

> I just started using Firefox as my main browser.  A great feature is 
> that it saves the log in information (user name and password) for most 
> sites.  But there are quite a few sites where Firefox does not save the 
> log in information (e.g. American Express).  Why is it?  Is there anyway 
> to manually save the log in information?  Thanks.
Some sites turn off your password managers ability to save your 
passwords.  There is a work around, but it doesn't always work for every 
site.

Here's what you do.  Go to this site, 
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#remember_password and 
drag the bookmarklet (javascript) to your Personal Toolbar (or wherever 
you store your passwords).  Now, go to the American Express login page, 
click on the bookmarklet, click on the OK that pops-up, enter your user 
name and password and login, then you should get the password manager 
asking if you want to save your password.  And thats it.  As I said, it 
should work.

Andreas
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 06:31:27 -0700, "Andreas, His Excellency, The
Imperial Grand Pooh-Bah" <crittersCANNED@SPAMpostmark.net> wrote:

>tenplay wrote:
>
>> I just started using Firefox as my main browser.  A great feature is 
>> that it saves the log in information (user name and password) for most 
>> sites.  But there are quite a few sites where Firefox does not save the 
>> log in information (e.g. American Express).  Why is it?  Is there anyway 
>> to manually save the log in information?  Thanks.
>Some sites turn off your password managers ability to save your 
>passwords.  There is a work around, but it doesn't always work for every 
>site.

>Here's what you do.  Go to this site, 
>http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#remember_password and 
>drag the bookmarklet (javascript) to your Personal Toolbar (or wherever 
>you store your passwords).  Now, go to the American Express login page, 
>click on the bookmarklet, click on the OK that pops-up, enter your user 
>name and password and login, then you should get the password manager 
>asking if you want to save your password.  And thats it.  As I said, it 
>should work.

I thought that was fixed in Mozilla so that all you need to do is set
some preference having to do with autocomplete override or whatever.

However, even that won't work if the attribute "password" is not
present in an INPUT tag. Some sites get around your trying to subvert
their forced password entry by collecting it separately (which Mozilla
cannot detect) and then passing it to the FORM INPUT.

For those sites I use Form Manager. That involves one more step,
namely having to invoke FM each time, but it beats having to look up
the bloody login in my password keeper.

There's another way around this that I used with a bank one time. I
saved the HTML Source for the login page and edited out all the BS,
keeping the bare essentials to log in. Then I hardcoded the login
information. To use it I built a bookmark that opened the HTML file
from my hard disk. It worked but I switched back to the street legal
method after Mozilla fixed the autocomplete bug. The bank had a nasty
habit of changing their login codewords all the time so I would have
to edit my cheat script.

Andreas, His Excellency, The Imperial Grand Pooh-Bah wrote:
> tenplay wrote:
> 
>> I just started using Firefox as my main browser.  A great feature is 
>> that it saves the log in information (user name and password) for most 
>> sites.  But there are quite a few sites where Firefox does not save 
>> the log in information (e.g. American Express).  Why is it?  Is there 
>> anyway to manually save the log in information?  Thanks.
> 
> Some sites turn off your password managers ability to save your 
> passwords.  There is a work around, but it doesn't always work for every 
> site.
> 
> Here's what you do.  Go to this site, 
> http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#remember_password and 
> drag the bookmarklet (javascript) to your Personal Toolbar (or wherever 
> you store your passwords).  Now, go to the American Express login page, 
> click on the bookmarklet, click on the OK that pops-up, enter your user 
> name and password and login, then you should get the password manager 
> asking if you want to save your password.  And thats it.  As I said, it 
> should work.
> 
> Andreas

Thanks.  Your suggestion worked for America Express.  However it doesn't 
work for my work webpage that asks for User ID and PIN.  Bob, you 
suggested using Form Manager to get around this.  How would you use it 
with Firefox?

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:03:16 -0700, tenplay <tenplay@mail.com> wrote:

>Bob, you 
>suggested using Form Manager to get around this.  How would you use it 
>with Firefox?

I do not use FF  - only Mozilla 1.7.

In Mozilla 1.7, and presumably FF too, you find FM under Tools. The
rest is self explanatory.

Bob wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:03:16 -0700, tenplay <tenplay@mail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Bob, you 
>>suggested using Form Manager to get around this.  How would you use it 
>>with Firefox?
> 
> 
> I do not use FF  - only Mozilla 1.7.
> 
> In Mozilla 1.7, and presumably FF too, you find FM under Tools. The
> rest is self explanatory.
> 
> 

I cannot locate FM under Tools in FF.  It's strange that it would be in 
Mozilla and not FF.  Oh well.

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:27:46 -0700, tenplay <tenplay@mail.com> wrote:

>I cannot locate FM under Tools in FF.  It's strange that it would be in 
>Mozilla and not FF.  Oh well.

See if you can get that AutoForm extension to work.

http://autoform.mozdev.org/installation.html#

It won't work in my Mozilla 1.7.

On 13.10.2004 02:27, tenplay wrote:

 --- Original Message ---

> Bob wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:03:16 -0700, tenplay <tenplay@mail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Bob, you 
>>>suggested using Form Manager to get around this.  How would you use it 
>>>with Firefox?
>> 
>> 
>> I do not use FF  - only Mozilla 1.7.
>> 
>> In Mozilla 1.7, and presumably FF too, you find FM under Tools. The
>> rest is self explanatory.
>> 
>> 
> 
> I cannot locate FM under Tools in FF.  It's strange that it would be in 
> Mozilla and not FF.  Oh well.

In FF -> Tools -> Options -> Privacy


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On 2004-10-13, tenplay <tenplay@mail.com> wrote:

> I cannot locate FM under Tools in FF.  It's strange that it would be in 
> Mozilla and not FF.  Oh well.

Try "autoform" http://autoform.mozdev.org/

It works for me on sites that disable saving passwords.

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Jay Garcia wrote:

> On 13.10.2004 02:27, tenplay wrote:
>
>> Bob wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:03:16 -0700, tenplay <tenplay@mail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bob, you  suggested using Form Manager to get around this. How 
>>>> would you use it  with Firefox?
>>>
>>> I do not use FF - only Mozilla 1.7.
>>>
>>> In Mozilla 1.7, and presumably FF too, you find FM under Tools. The 
>>> rest is self explanatory.
>>
>> I cannot locate FM under Tools in FF. It's strange that it would be 
>> in Mozilla and not FF. Oh well.
>
> In FF -> Tools -> Options -> Privacy

I don't see how this is supposed to work. All that's there is a toggle 
to turn on saving of form information. I have that toggled on already. 
Bob seems to imply a form manager that he somehow has to run and 
manipulate to get the fields saved. I don't see that in FF.

My problem is different (though I do also experience the same problem 
too sometimes). The site that I want it to work on is at 
https://banking.uboc.com/UBOC/BankAtHome/LoginFrameset.jsp which is my 
bank. Recently they added a 3rd field, zip code. Now the form manager 
memorizes my Access# and Online PIN but fails to remember my Zip/Postal 
Code. When I asked about this before, and after verifying that the Save 
Passwords bookmarklet does not work in this situation, I played with 
signons.txt by hand removing the entry stored for UBOC. After revisiting 
the page and having to enter the information again, this time Firefox 
indeed saved all three fields! And for a while it worked. Then, for some 
unknown reason and without me carefully watching it, it broke again. 
Same problem, remember the first 2 fields and fails to memorize the zip 
code.

But thinking about this I ask myself "Why are passwords an issue at 
all?". I mean how is a password different than any other field on a form 
that the form manager should be remembering except to say that when 
rendered or outputted into the form its appearance is altered so as to 
obscure its cleartext value? IOW what's special about a password that 
makes it sometimes be forgotten by the form manager?

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On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 08:30:32 -0700, Andrew DeFaria
<Andrew@DeFaria.com> wrote:

>how is a password different than any other field on a form 
>that the form manager should be remembering except to say that when 
>rendered or outputted into the form its appearance is altered so as to 
>obscure its cleartext value? IOW what's special about a password that 
>makes it sometimes be forgotten by the form manager?

The thing that makes passwords unique is the explicit use of the
attribute 

type="password"

in the <input> tag

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Bob wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 08:30:32 -0700, Andrew DeFaria
> <Andrew@DeFaria.com> wrote:
>
>> how is a password different than any other field on a form that the 
>> form manager should be remembering except to say that when rendered 
>> or outputted into the form its appearance is altered so as to obscure 
>> its cleartext value? IOW what's special about a password that makes 
>> it sometimes be forgotten by the form manager?
>
> The thing that makes passwords unique is the explicit use of the 
> attribute
>
> type="password"
>
> in the <input> tag

Oh come on! You know what I mean. I know that type="password" signifies 
that it's a password and that that is a sign that the password should be 
obscured instead of displayed in plain text. That's not the point! From 
the "saving form fields" perspective, why should Firefox treat 
type="password" any much different than any other <input> field (aside 
from again encrypting it before storing it in signons.txt)? IOW If it 
saves "Enter username: <input type='text'>" as form data then why should 
it not also save "Enter password: <input type='password'>" as form 
data?!? The semantics of password fields should only affect its display 
and storage as encrypted but otherwise the saving of the password should 
not really be handled any differently than the saving of any other bit 
of form information.

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<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Andrew@DeFaria.com">&lt;Andrew@DeFaria.com&gt;</a> wrote:<br>
  <blockquote type="cite">how is a password different than any other
field on a form that the form manager should be remembering except to
say that when rendered or outputted into the form its appearance is
altered so as to obscure its cleartext value? IOW what's special about
a password that makes it sometimes be forgotten by the form manager?<br>
  </blockquote>
<!---->The thing that makes passwords unique is the explicit use of the
attribute <br>
  <br>
type="password"<br>
  <br>
in the &lt;input&gt; tag<br>
</blockquote>
Oh come on! You know what I mean. I know that type="password" signifies
that it's a password and that that is a sign that the password should
be obscured instead of displayed in plain text. That's not the point!
From the "saving form fields" perspective, why should Firefox treat
type="password" any much different than any other &lt;input&gt; field
(aside from again encrypting it before storing it in signons.txt)? IOW
If it saves "Enter username: &lt;input type='text'&gt;" as form data
then why should it not also save "Enter password: &lt;input
type='password'&gt;" as form data?!? The semantics of password fields
should only affect its display and storage as encrypted but otherwise
the saving of the password should not really be handled any differently
than the saving of any other bit of form information.<br>
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