Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Enker on March 10, 2009, 08:43:39 PM
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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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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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Yeah I'd guess that somehow the "Remember passwords for sites" box got unchecked somehow.
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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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Have you tried uninstalling Firefox, and then reinstalling it?
If not try that and see if it works.
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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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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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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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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."
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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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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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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
Space, science, sex..
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I believe the OP may have been referring to cookies, not the passwords themselves.
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.