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Stored Passwords Problem

12 years ago

Up until a week or so ago, my computer stored my passwords and logins to various sites I visit....gardenweb, facebook, yahoo, my email addresses, shopping sites, etc. Now for some reason I have to log in each and every time I visit a site. I have no idea what happened or what changed but would really like to go back the way it was. I am on a satellite connection, no one other than me uses this computer, and I use firefox.

Any ideas or suggestions on what I can do to fix this. I thought it was a cookies issue and tried to change that setting but no luck. Not sure now what to do.

Thanks for any help.

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Comments (8)

owbist
12 years ago
Perhaps you did a clean up and cleared out your cookies?

I find quite often I need to log in here despite clicking to remain logged in, this does not happen with other sites strangely.

If you use Ccleaner (perhaps other programs too, not sure) you can protect your cookies. To do so open Ccleaner, click Options, click Cookies. Now move any cookies you want saved over to the right side for protection.
kudzu9
12 years ago
When you say you changed your cookies settings and it didn't solve the problem, do you mean that it didn't restore the automatic logins that you had before, or that you've logged in since you changed the settings, but the computer still won't remember? And what settings did you change?

I always have to login to all sites when I reopen Firefox, but that's intentional on my part: I've got my settings such that all cookies are erased when I close the browser because I don't like having cookies on my computer.
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murphy_zone7
Original Author
12 years ago
Sorry for the delay in responding...Christmas prep got in the way. I do appreciate the responses.
Owbist, I did not do a "clean up" don't really know how other than delete temp files and de-frag which I have not done lately. I delete temp files pretty regularly just don't have a set schedule to do it. Perhaps I should?
kudzu9, I didn't do anything to the cookies until the log-in's changed. Then I don't remember what I did, but have since changed the tools/options/security to "remember passwords" and still have the problem. I also have the cookies setting on the control panel internet options set for medium.
I am sorry I can't be specific about what I did, I just don't remember. I have tried so many things to fix the problem that I am now considering doing a system restore and see if that works. I thought someone would have a suggestion of what to change where to get the automatic log-ins to work again.
Again I appreciate the help.
Murphy
acraftylady
12 years ago
You aren't by any chance using Norton identity safe to store your log in's are you? I ask this because I use Norton security and use the identity safe and a few weeks ago or so there was a norton program update and the identity safe was not working right after with some of my sites so I got on the norton forums and someone addressed it and said there was a known issue and they would look into then a few days later it started working so they must have made and update to correct it. Mary
murphy_zone7
Original Author
12 years ago
SUCCESS!! Problem solved. Seems it was a setting in Firefox that got changed by those pesky little PC Gremlins. Made that change back and all is well. Must have happened when I tried to download an update to Firefox.
Thanks for the responses.
Murphy
kudzu9
12 years ago
Murphy-
Glad you got it fixed. Write down what you did so you'll remember next time.

Also, it's good you didn't create a new problem by doing a system restore. System restore works well when you want to go back to previous settings of your operating system, but it wouldn't have changed anything in your Firefox browser.
DA_Mccoy
12 years ago
Murphy,

Good for you. So other members may be aware, what setting change?

Bet it was on the History portion of the Privacy tab.

DA
murphy_zone7
Original Author
12 years ago
DA, exactly. Custom settings allow cookies. So simple yet such a pain to figure out.

Kudzu, I did write it down! And I didn't think it through that a system restore would not have fixed the problem. Too much going on right now and I was just tired of having to log in each and every time.

Thank you all for the help. Now I need to figure out what is wrong with the camera in my laptop. Always something isn't it??

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