[noob] Firefox has forgotten some passwords, how to re-enable?

[noodles355]

Sorry for a probably very stupid question but Firefox has decided to forget my stored password for a particular site. going into tools and checking stored passwords and cookies, it's trying to tell me I never saved a password there, which is a lie. It won't give me the little pop up message for password manager either.

On the same website it also used to remember details in forms for payment and stuff, whereas now it doesn't. In fact the only thing it remembers is my username to sign in with whereas when I last tried (like a week ago?) IT would remember my username, password, Credit card holder's name and credit card number.

I haven't (knowingly) reset the cookies for this page.
Any ideas?


(befor you ask, the website in question is Dominos, not a porn site I need lunch but have lost my credit card and it's the only thing I can think of where I don't need it to buy... but now I do. annoying!)

[Shalafi]

I have the same problem, I did some searching and found some sites which claimed reset solutions but none worked. Unfortunately, I'm still looking...

[noodles355]

It makes you wonder: What happens if you accidentally hit "never remember password" by mistake?

From what I've found so far you're just generally boned and can never store a password on that site.
That seems pretty fucking retarded to me.

[Caiyuo]

So, just to confirm, you've gone into Tools > Options > Security > Saved Passwords > Show Passwords and there's no listing of a password there despite it having saved your username? Is it possible the username is just in the "saved form history" as would a previous google search be?

If there is an entry there, commonly you need to select the username from the drop-down box when you go to a site in order for it to auto-fill the rest of your login details. This can happen on sites where you have multiple logins as well, like logging into multiple google accounts where instead of selecting one they simply leave it blank and auto-fill with the one you choose by clicking within the username box and presenting what is saved for that site.

[Norellicus]

This is why password keepers are a terrible idea

If you use the password all the time, you won't forget it

[Baelorn]

It makes you wonder: What happens if you accidentally hit "never remember password" by mistake?

From what I've found so far you're just generally boned and can never store a password on that site.
That seems pretty fucking retarded to me.

Those sites should be in the 'Exceptions' list and can be removed so you can store passwords there again.

[noodles355]

So, just to confirm, you've gone into Tools > Options > Security > Saved Passwords > Show Passwords and there's no listing of a password there despite it having saved your username? Is it possible the username is just in the "saved form history" as would a previous google search be?

If there is an entry there, commonly you need to select the username from the drop-down box when you go to a site in order for it to auto-fill the rest of your login details. This can happen on sites where you have multiple logins as well, like logging into multiple google accounts where instead of selecting one they simply leave it blank and auto-fill with the one you choose by clicking within the username box and presenting what is saved for that site.

There is no entry in the saved passwords section for the site in Tools. The username storing is as you describe: like a google search.
The website is not in the exceptions window either.

It used to remember my password, it doesn't any more, denys every having known it, doesn't list it as "never accept" and gives me no means of telling it to save it again.

[Caiyuo]

The only thing I can think of as a familiar situation is possibly having CCleaner set to clean firefox passwords in the "Applications" pane for Firefox of the Cleaner function. That's common if it's set to auto-clean on any sort-of schedule.

The only hang-up there is that CCleaner isn't selective and it would clean out all passwords, but that's the only other thing I can think of. Would really suck if this is just a random bug because it means leaving it unfixed. D:

[Omniyoji]

Not a fix for your problem but the best way to use passwords is to use them everytime and to try to make them non-words. It sounds hard but you could start with something small such as

KQST3518

Then create other similar ones

r02tjp364

Mix in other random characters such as:

<KQST-3518>
[r02tjp364]

I've used 3 passwords like that for the longest time ever. You could even combine all of them to create a very long secure one. I have one off the top of my head that's 30~35 chars long.

Getting back to the main point I suggest you give this a try:

http://supergenpass.com/

It'll forever work (long as the site url doesn't change) and all you need is just one memorized pass.

[Caiyuo]

For password methods, I personally like to use a phrase of set of phrases to pick from and add in something from the website's name to make something unique for each pass. lifehacker might be 2hackbutts8, while BG could be 3punchbluejerks5. They become so stupid they're impossible to forget. lol

No these aren't my passwords. >c