User ID's and passwords with Firefox

My PC is running XP Home SP2, DSL connection. Firefox 1.5.0.6.

Firefox generally does a good job remembering user ID's and passwords
that I type in. This is especially useful when cookies are deleted and you
have to log back into websites. However, there are some websites where
Firefox does not remember user ID's and passwords, and doesn't even ask me
if it should remember them. Is there an extension that will force Firefox
to always remember every user ID and password I type in?

 

some sites disable the remembering of passwords function. However,
sometimes you can get around that by using the remember password
bookmarklet. Just drag it to your bookmarks, visit the login site,
click on the bookmarklet, hit ok to the popup, enter your user name
and password, and enter. You should get another popup asking if you
want to remember the password. Sometimes this works, sometimes it
doesn't:
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#remember_password

 

some sites disable the remembering of passwords function.

My credit union website disables password saving, and that's okay.
But I find it strange that Firefox will not automatically store and remember
my user ID and password at the Dell Community Forums, for example.

 

some sites disable the remembering of passwords function. However,

That actually seems to have fixed the problem, at least with two
websites that I had trouble with. Thanks for the link. What exactly is a
bookmarklet?

 

What exactly is a bookmarklet?

According to one website:

Bookmarklets are simple tools that extend the surf and search capabilities
of Netscape and Explorer web browsers.

Bookmarklets are free.

Bookmarklets allow you to:

a.. Modify the way you see someone else's webpage.
b.. Extract data from a webpage.
c.. Search more quickly, and in ways not possible with a search engine.
d.. Navigate in new ways.
...and more. Over 150 bookmarklets are available.

 

bookmarklets are like bookmarks but contain pieces of javascripts that
let you do certain things.

150!!!! -- that must an old site. I have over 600 of them, and I've
just scratched the surface of them.