Password problems with Firefox

Some sites that require a password to get past the front (login) page do
not allow me to login with Firefox 1.0.2. I enter the correct password
& press "enter" as per usual but I get thrown back to the login page;
sometimes with a message about incorrect password but often with no
indication as to why I am back there. These sites load OK in IE!
Is there a known problem with Firefox and passwords?
I am using XP Home with SP2 and Sygate Personal Firewall Pro (with
Firefox "permitted") & VET AV with MS AntiSpyware.
Most sites are OK - including banking sites (which should be the hardest
to get into) but some just do not like Firefox.
Any ideas where to look?

 

Retry the sites after deleting their cookies.

 

Sorry but I have been there; anyway both of these sites insist on
setting cookies to get in!

 

Deleting the cookies won't stop you logging back in -- new cookies will
be baked on the spot. *Blocking* cookies from those sites is what will
cause you problems.

cheers,

David H

 

Oh look yet another problem!

 

Even with all cookies enabled makes no difference.

 

Wasn't what I meant! Yes, for sure, have cookies enabled. But once
you've done that, use the cookie manager to *delete specific cookies for
the sites in question, then look again*.

Sorry for any confusion.

David H

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"When the tough get going, I'll steal their sandwiches."

If you need to contact me direct, please remove the obvious from the
reply address

 

I do not seem to get far enough into the site to collect cookies: the
only ONE I have got listed is from Mozillazine!
BTW I have upgraded to FF1.0.3 but still no difference; looks as though
I will just have to wear it .. damn!
AB

 

On 4/23/2005 2:43 PM, Arthur Beales said:

Hum. Do these sites log you into the same window, or into a popup? IIRC
when I bet on the Boat Race, the bookie's site does all its business in
a large popup! If you have popup blocking set on sites like that, you
might have authenticated properly, but the logged-in window is quashed.
Try clearing these sites in the popup manager and see if it helps?

cheers,

David H

 

The main site that refuses entry (www.assa.org.au) opens a new window
for "members"; can't see any popups. I have allowed it to set popups but
no change.
grrr!
Arthur

 

One that, if you cared to read, was resolved.

Go to your MS newsgroups and see the hundreds of problems posted in a
day that are NEVER resolved!

 

Actually .. not quite resolved! .. though I suspect it may not
necessarily be a Firefox problem. I have a Toshiba Notebook with an
identical setup (except that the Notebook has XP Pro instead of Home)
and it will access all the sites quite happily. I now have FF 1.0.3 on
both & the status is still the same. The recalcitrant sites work on the
Notebook but not on the Desktop. So what I guess I am asking is can
someone suggest where to look for the problem (AND solution) on the
Desktop - which is the beast I normally prefer to use for this type of job?

 

You have a hosts file on the desktop?

 

I don't think so .. what is a hosts file??

 

A hosts file is a file which lists or delimits what domains can be contacted

You will have to ask others here on how to ascertain if you have one,
and if so, how to view it

 

I have not knowingly set up anything of the sort & am not part of any
network; thus I doubt that I have anything in the way of a hosts file!
Anyway I used to be able to access these sites but, without knowingly
changing anything, I now find that I cannot. So I suspect something in
Windows has gone pear-shaped .. the question is what & where?

 

if you're interested in seeing what's in your hosts file, type in a run
dialogue box: notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and it
should pull it right up. If you see anything other then the 127.0.0.1
localhost line (excluding the descriptiong of a hosts file) that
you know you didn't put their yourself (and didn't have Spybod s&d put
it there for you) then delete it.

Regards,

Will

 

Thanks for that Will; I will tuck it away into the memory cells for
future use. However I have finally resolved the issue of sites not
allowing logins after a lot of head-scratching .. and swearing!
.. and without using IE!
The problem was, indeed, with cookies .. though not as simple as had
been hoped/thought.
Initially I had cookies disallowed, but on advice from the local
webmaster, I enabled them ... BUT, this did not work retrospectively.
FireFox had previously recorded that cookies were disallowed for all
sites .. and it remembered this for all sites I had visited until I
changed it to allow them. So, with the (local)ASSA site being one of
these, it continued to disallow them at ASSA. I eventually hunted
through the Tools/Options/Privacy/Cookies/Exceptions setup and changed
"Block" to "Allow" for the ASSA site .. and Bingo - all is OK!
So it was not specifically a FireFox issue.
Hope this may be of some use to anyone else who has similar strife.
Thanks to all who have replied
Arthur

 

I used to get Firefox 1.0.2 remembering passwords with the help of
little extension "Always Remember Password"

Now after updating to Firefox 1.0.3 this password function does not
work with YahooMail and Hotmail although it does with most of other
URLs.

Does anybody know how to get it working also with Yahoo and Hotmail?

 

extension? I just use the FF password manager. I'd check the settings
in your PW manager (or extension, if that's what you ment) to see if you
have it set to nevewr allow passwords on hotmal and yahoo.


Regards,

Will