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Offline Enker

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Firefox issues
« on: March 10, 2009, 08:43:39 PM »
Up until recently, Firefox had been saving the login information for emails, forums, etc. so that we could pick up where we left off, rather than having to log in every time. Now, we have to log in every time, even if we just exit the browser. This doesn't bother me too much, but this phenomenon frustrates my father for some reason, and he wants me to ask you technical people for help. Any suggestions?
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Re: Firefox issues
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2009, 10:21:41 PM »
Check under tools and options, security tab has  passwords, and privacy has clearing personal data. My guess is they are set to clear data, and not remember passwords.
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Re: Firefox issues
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2009, 10:43:12 PM »
Yeah I'd guess that somehow the "Remember passwords for sites" box got unchecked somehow.
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Re: Firefox issues
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2009, 03:46:54 PM »
Quote from: The Fugitive on March 10, 2009, 10:21:41 PM
Check under tools and options, security tab has  passwords, and privacy has clearing personal data. My guess is they are set to clear data, and not remember passwords.
Alright, I have the clear data box unchecked, and the remember passwords checked. It still does it though.
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Re: Firefox issues
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2009, 03:50:21 PM »
Have you tried uninstalling Firefox, and then reinstalling it?

If not try that and see if it works.
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Re: Firefox issues
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2009, 09:13:13 AM »
Quote from: Enker on March 10, 2009, 08:43:39 PM
Up until recently, Firefox had been saving the login information for emails, forums, etc. so that we could pick up where we left off, rather than having to log in every time. Now, we have to log in every time, even if we just exit the browser. This doesn't bother me too much, but this phenomenon frustrates my father for some reason, and he wants me to ask you technical people for help. Any suggestions?

Same thing happening here since update of FF, haven't been able to figure it out yet. Checked all of the settings, they are all OK, it must be something hard coded into it.

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Re: Firefox issues
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2009, 10:55:36 AM »
I haven't had this problem with my Firefox, and I did get the new automatic update from the other night.
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Re: Firefox issues
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2009, 01:07:01 PM »
I have one computer where firefox has automatically deleted all history from the beginning despite of settings.

Reinstall did nothing so I suspect the cause of this is some file or registry setting that doesn't get deleted during uninstall.

I thought my kid was hiding his browsing history from me first but then I realized the same thing happened to me between browsing, too.
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Re: Firefox issues
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2009, 03:11:51 PM »
I hope you didn't first go & start accusing him of doing stuff on the internet he wouldn't want you to know about before you figured out it was Firefox doing it and not him.

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Re: Firefox issues
« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2009, 05:49:31 PM »
Quote from: trax1 on March 12, 2009, 03:11:51 PM
I hope you didn't first go & start accusing him of doing stuff on the internet he wouldn't want you to know about before you figured out it was Firefox doing it and not him.

"Boy, don't you go lying to me, the computer isn't just doing it all by itself."

He's 7 so I was just surprised he would already do that so I asked him if he's deleting the history. I'm not the kind of parent that will nanny the kid to death (keyloggers, anyone?). I still remember being a preteen/teen.
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Re: Firefox issues
« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2009, 06:17:13 PM »
I wish when I was 7 we had the internet like kids do today, it has to make learning just so much easier, if you don't know the answer to something, or don't know the explanation for something you can just go to the internet and find it out.  Before the internet if you didn't have the complete set of the encyclopedia at your house you would have to go up to the library, or you were basically screwed until you got back to school the next day, now it's like kids have the entire library at home.
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Re: Firefox issues
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2009, 12:25:56 AM »
Quote from: trax1 on March 12, 2009, 06:17:13 PM
I wish when I was 7 we had the internet like kids do today, it has to make learning just so much easier, if you don't know the answer to something, or don't know the explanation for something you can just go to the internet and find it out.  Before the internet if you didn't have the complete set of the encyclopedia at your house you would have to go up to the library, or you were basically screwed until you got back to school the next day, now it's like kids have the entire library at home.

My hobby as a 7-year old was to read through our entire set of encyclopedia. Especially the 's' letter book was particlarly interesting..  :D

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Re: Firefox issues
« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2009, 12:40:22 AM »
I believe the OP may have been referring to cookies, not the passwords themselves.

Quote from: Enker on March 10, 2009, 08:43:39 PM
so that we could pick up where we left off [...] Now, we have to log in every time, even if we just exit the browser.
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