Try the workaround which is suggested in my article. Might work for you, too:)

Glad that it worked — now you can save all of your passwords! So it was a Vista security issue, after all…

About the other feature you ask — I do not think you can autosave everything without even a prompt. And I would not recommend to you to do it this way, even if it was possible.

After all, every time you enter a username and a password and login somewhere, FF shows you a small info bar at the top, with “Remember password / Never for this site / Not now”. First, you have a choice, which is good (you do not need to save everything, 100% of the time!). Second, if you wish the password to be saved at the moment, simply press “R” on your keyboard, and it will be saved, and the info bar will disappear. Useful and easy!

Hope this helps and… happy saving passwords! ;-)

I did upgrade to Firefox 3.5.6. I also set my User control setting to off, which I think that did the trick…because it worked!! :)

However, I was actually looking for something that would save all of my user names and passwords without any prompts or pop ups at all…kind of like an auto save I guess.

Any suggestions or thoughts on this??

Thank you again, it really is nice of you to take the time to answer my questions.

T

First of all, I’d recommend to you to upgrade to latest Firefox 3.5.x — I don’t see a reason why not to? :)

Second, on Windows Vista it’s possible that the security settings of the operating system may simply prevent you from editing/saving the file! (Windows XP is much more forgiving in this aspect…) Ideas, if this is the issue? Not sure… Maybe try to save/replace the file as Administrator?

Third, you must be sure that Firefox is not running when you try to save the file!

Hope this may help you… if not, hopefully we’ll still be able to come up with a solution of some sort… :)

I tried it again and when I went to save, I get this message:

Access to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components\nsLoginManagers.js is denied.

Does the spacing matter when you insert the comments? Arrrggg…why is this not working for me?

My computer is running windows vista, and Firefox version 3.0.16, not sure if that makes a difference.

I really appreciate your help…Thank you!!

T

Hmm, this sounds strange.

I really don’t know why you see error:

“Err: Cannot create the C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components\nsLoginManagers.jsfile”

The full path is supposed to be:
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components\nsLoginManagers.js

The “//” comments you inserted are correct.

If problem on your side persists, I may try to upload here for review & download a sample
nsLoginManagers.js file which you could test (and see how it is edited).

Hope this helps!

I did all of the steps exactly as explained. I found the proper code and entered the following:

// if (element && element.hasAttribute(“autocomplete”) &&
// element.getAttribute(“autocomplete”).toLowerCase() == “off”)
// return true;

They all appear in one line and I just entered the comment in from of each on the same line.
All I keep getting is this message:

Err: Cannot create the C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components\nsLoginManagers.jsfile

Make Sure that the path and file are correct.

Am I supposed to put them on sperate line on the notepad?

Can you please help me?…although I know this may be frustrating for you…

Many thanks.

T