Re: Iceweasel not remembering saved passwords

[Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com>]

Celejar wrote the following on 03/24/2010 08:16 PM:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:19:32 -0500
> Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> wrote:
>
> > Celejar wrote the following on 03/22/2010 10:03 PM:
> > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:49:08 -0500
> > > Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Greetings;
> > > >
> > > > All of a sudden Iceweasel has forgotten my userid and 
> > > > password for Paypal. All the others seem to be fine.
> > > >
> > > > Also, it will not offer to remember the info when I logon to 
> > > > Paypal. Again, other sites are working correctly.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas what the trouble might be or how I can fix it and 
> > > > get it working the way it was?
> > > >
> > > > TIA for any help or info,
> > > Did you try looking under Prefs / Security / Passwords / Exceptions to
> > > see if Paypal somehow got listed there?
> > >
> > > Celejar
> > Yes, I checked that. No such luck. I also checked 
> > about:config for anything refering to Paypal but no hits 
> > there either. I am quite puzzled by this behaviour.
>
> Sorry, I don't really know that much about this stuff.  I do know
> that some websites can instruct the browser not to remember their
> credentials. There are various workarounds for this, such as
> Greasemonkey scripts, etc.  I don't know enough about this to provide
> useful direction, though.  Good luck!
>
> Celejar

Thanks for that info! I started searching for a workaround 
and found an answer in the Mozilla KB

(http://kb.mozillazine.org/User_name_and_password_not_remembered 

  if anyone else is interested.)

I wouldn't have thought to look without your suggestion.

Thanks again!
Dennis