Make Firefox Remember Passwords of Hotmail, Live, MSN & Yahoo Sites
Have you ever wondered why does not Firefox prompt you to save passwords, for the above mentioned sites? Well the fact of the matter is that they tell Firefox not to, due to security issues. If you are a user and have multiple accounts with yahoo or with any of the above mentioned sites, and you browse them from your home, this is for you. If you are checking your mail from work please stop reading now because if you enable this in your office computer others might get into your mail account.
Considering this event in mind, and to increase your privacy, some sites, including many banks and a few other sites such as Yahoo Mail and Microsoft Passport, tell browsers not to remember passwords for visitors using autocomplete=?off?. This bookmarklet makes the browser ignore autocomplete=?off? temporarily, allowing you to save passwords even on sites that use autocomplete=?off?.
So here is how to make Firefox remember passwords for sites like yahoo, flickr, MSN, Live etc.
Use this bookmarklet ?Remember Password? just before submitting the form with your password in it. When you submit the form, your browser should offer to remember the password. Once your browser has your password stored, it will ignore autocomplete=?off?, so you won?t have to use the bookmarklet each time you visit the site.
To use the bookmarklet, right click and ?Save to Bookmarks? or simply DRAG and DROP in your Firefox Bookmarks bar. When you want to run it, just click it before pressing Login on the form. And you will be prompted if you want to save the form data.
If you have done correctly you should get the dialog box when you press the bookmarklet.
The Remember Password bookmarklet only works on Mozilla Firefox browser.
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just what i was looking for
thanks
on August 14, 2008
how to cancel the “automatic sign in everytime i log in my friendster accounT?? its pisssing me off!!
on October 15, 2008
I followed all instructions yet it still doesn’t work.. I got the box where firefox asked if it wanted to remember my password, so I clicked yes. Signed out then went back in and not only did I have to retype my password but my e-mail address as well >.<
on April 3, 2009
@Unhappy_Camper:
to what site did this not work for you?
on April 5, 2009
I tried it several times on hotmail, but still can’t get it to work. I got the box that says what it’s supposed to say, and then I click on remember, but then when I close the browser and go back to hotmail, I still have to type my email and password in.
on May 5, 2009
I tried it several times on hotmail, but still can’t get it to work. I got the box that says what it’s supposed to say, and then I click on remember, but then when I close the browser and go back to hotmail, I still have to type my email and password in.
on May 5, 2009
@Janell:
i think you have set your browser to delete browsing history at close
on May 5, 2009
i have multiple email adresses in hotmail, and i use them all. i want to remember all of the emails, but none of the passwords. when i used IE it worked fine, but now that i use firefox 3.0, i can only remember one email address and it forgets at reboot. please help, i dont want to switch back to IE!
yrael
on June 12, 2009
Well its best if you use LastPass or some kind of password manager, or else you can use firefox one also.
on June 12, 2009
does anyone knowhow to make firefox remember 2 email addresses so i dont have to type them everytime??
on July 22, 2009
@Amanda:
yeah sure this works for two email addresses as well, basically what this does is enables the Firefox password manager or any other password manager you have to capture the user name and password and ask you to save….
on July 22, 2009
Hey I tried this and it worked insofar as firefox has my hotmail password in the password manager….but my email and password still don’t get enetered into the boxes when i go onto hotmail.com
Firefox isn’t set to delete anything on close.
Help!?
on July 29, 2009
Using the auto login bookmark to make firefox remember the password works fine but when you sign out of hotmail you need to fill it in again.
I used to have an alternative sign-in page for hotmail which would allow Firefox to generate the username and password but I’ve lost the URL.
on September 11, 2009
@jago: well you can always use LastPass
on September 11, 2009
please send me my password.
on September 18, 2009
how can i make mozilla not to remember my fs password?
on October 30, 2009
I do not know what is fs, but you can uncheck “Remember Passwords” option in the Firefox options security tab.
on October 31, 2009
thank you very much seem to do the job
on November 13, 2009
Doesn’t work to sign in to Hotmail with Firefox. There’s no change in having to sign in every time!
on December 7, 2009
Thanx, it works!
on December 10, 2009
Worked so far for me!
Thanks
on December 26, 2009