“Hug a developer!”
Friday, August 29th, 2008That’s just great!
Quick, quick, designers and developers need a hug, help!!! :-)
Archive for August, 2008
How to make Firefox remember *all* passwords (even when logging to PayPal & Yahoo Mail)
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008You have maybe noticed, when you log in to PayPal, Yahoo! Mail, Live Mail and some other websites, that Firefox 3 does not give you the option to save the name & password for you, which in certain cases is a nuisance.
The reason? Security. In the forms of these websites, in the field INPUT, the following code appears:
<input autocomplete="off" type="..." ... />
When "autocomplete" is ‘off’, then the browser (quite correctly) does not give the user the option of saving the password for him. For websites, such as PayPal, for example, using which you can transfer small or large sums of money, this is a very wise approach.
On the other hand, in this case, you have to manually type each time your username and/or password, which can be quite annoying (especially if they are very long/secure). If you are using your own computer/laptop, and you think that you do not need that extra bit of security, there is a very easy way to make Firefox 3 to remember the passwords even for these secure websites, which set autocomplete to “off”.
Here’s how:
