How To Make Firefox Remember Password? (After Pressing “Never”)

Written by Pramodh KP

August 25th, 2009 at 5:21 pm

Posted in Featured,Tools & Tutorials

Firefox, with countless number of services stands out ot be one of the best browser.Some of those unique features of  this browser is tabbed browsing, password remembering etc. Here is an other option in firefox reviewed for you readers to take your browser to the utmost efficiency.

I have often seen many people asking “How to get the “Remember Password” option back after pressing “Never for this site” button?”. So I thought of writing a post on this. You can get back the “Remember Password” option even though you have accidentally pressed the “Never for this site” button. Here is the way.

Visit Tools>>Options in Firefox and then click on the “Security” tab. Click on the “Exceptions” button in the dialog box. (i.e. in the passwords section). In the dialog box opened, remove the link of the site for which you want to get the “Remember Password” option.

After you are done with this successfully, you will get a “Remember Password” option, the next time you login to the site.

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  • Jim

    Great tip. It works exactly as advertised. It looks like a couple of typo’s crept in though.

    – out ot be one of the best browser.Some

    Should be :
    –out to be one of the best browsers. Some

  • http://www.techmonk.com/ admin

    Oh Thanks for the correction…..

  • Angela

    When I tried this, no sites were listed for me to remove. Any suggestions?

  • http://www.techmonk.com/ pramodh kp

    Hey Angela,
    If there are no sites listed then, everything would be working fine. BTW if you are talking about Yahoo!, i too can’t save passwords for that site.. That’s a bug I beleive. If not, try reinstalling firefox after backing up your bookmarks and site history if you want..

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  • Jason

    Ok after a little digging through sourcecode here is what I have found on forcing autocomplete in Firefox 4. The Firefox Devlopers have moved any files they could in to an archive file called omni.jar. (http://blog.mozilla.com/mwu/2010/08/13/omnijar-how-does-it-work/) You can open it in Firefox itself but not edit it in firefox. (jar:file:///C:/Program%20Files%20%28×86%29/Mozilla%20Firefox/omni.jar!/components/) 7-zip the tool most of us would use to unpack it is not able to handle the format Mozilla used. There is still some question on if other tools like winrar and winzip can correctly repack the files the way firefox was expecting too (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/forums/forum/45797/topic/4014723) (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2129699&start=0)
    (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595473) Long and short of it hopefully the Mozilla developed will switch to a more common and recognized compression format as this also affects the Firefox theme builders apparently. Once they do we can open and edit nsLoginManager.js as normal within the omni.jar compressed file.

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