Comments on: Fix Firefox Does Not Save, Store or Remember Password On Some Sites Permanently for Always Auto-Complete

By: chris

chris — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:02:51 +0000

I use Vista 64 and renaming and/or deleting the .sqlite file DID NOT WORK for me. F*** Firefox I’ll use another browser that isn’t so annoying.

By: gaaaa

gaaaa — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:30:22 +0000

rename cookies.sqlite to cookies.sqlite.OLD

that works 4 me

By: Cockulant

Cockulant — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:35:08 +0000

Just tested on Firefox v3.5.2 on a Mac and works brilliantly, thanks!

Not sure if it’s been posted before but on the Mac the file is in the Firefox app “folder”:

Go into Applications, right click on the Firefox app and go to Show Package Contents. Then go into Contents, MacOS, components and there’s the file

By: Ed H

Ed H — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:32:03 +0000

I’ve been using this fix for some time on firefox, but when I applied it to a download (8/4/09) of 3.5.2 (upgraded from 3.12), it DOES NOT WORK! Anybody else with this issue?

By: Nako

Nako — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:04:10 +0000

Goo job! Thx!
Worked well on 3.5.1.
Helpful article.

By: Carl Patton

Carl Patton — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:50:49 +0000

I had found a used this fix before. But the nsLoginManager.js file must have reset when I installed 3.5.1. Now when I make the changes in notebook, I am not allowed to save the file. Any Ideas?

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:46:52 +0000

How about forcing fx to remember password only for some specific sites?

I tried adding “ && document.domain != “www.somedomain.com” ” to that “if” statement instead of commenting it out, but I’m not to proficient in js and it didn’t seem to work.

Any thoughts?
Cheers!

By: hemando

hemando — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:30:57 +0000

I want to try this but don’t know where to find the Firefox profile on my Mac so that I can make the changes. Thanx.

By: C Grebsivlas

C Grebsivlas — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:25:41 +0000

Worked well on 3.5.

Note:
I can see a potential problem with some people -

There’s a “.TXT” file with the same name that’s easy to read in Notepad – that’s NOT the right file to modify.
The right file is the “.JS” file.
In XP Pro, the file doesn’t have line numbers in Notepad, so, it’s Search (control F) for “autocomplete”, till you find the right sequence of commands and then comment “” them out.

Thanks for the great article.

Mozilla seems to update the loginmanager.js when you update.

By: Machiner Productions

Machiner Productions — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:04:22 +0000

This trick does not work for Firefox 3.0.11. Is this trick works anyway for Firefox 3.5?

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:03:31 +0000

This worked great for me—Firefox decided to stop saving the password to a site I am at SEVERAL times a day and was about to drive me bat—t. This worked great!! You can get editpad lite for free and it can search right to the lines you need to edit, although you may need to change the js file association properties in C>Tools>Folder Options>File Types. Once you allow notepad to open it, use editpad to search right to the line, edit as instructed and it worked like a dream.

By: Faith Edkin

Faith Edkin — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:29:59 +0000

This is an awesome tip! Thank you! I Love you

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:21:48 +0000

y i can’t save the js file?Any trick required? it says ‘make sure the path and file name are correct..

By: Password Remember « Quality Assurance at Openbravo

Password Remember « Quality Assurance at Openbravo — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:38:42 +0000

[...] additional property that can be set on and off for each field on any given html page. So, we need a fix for Firefox in order to forget that [...]

By: admin

admin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:15:48 +0000

skylos, you have mentioned it. Thanks.

By: skylos

skylos — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:43:35 +0000

Why is there no mention of the dude (Tonycosus) that pointed out this method on the previous article on Save Password Bookmarklet, comment #5?