Hi  !

You could hover over each of those suggested usernames and press the 'Delete' key.

You could also do this :

3-bar menu (or 'Tools') => Privacy & Security => Browser Privacy Under 'Forms & Passwords' : Uncheck : 'Remember logins and passwords for sites'

The first suggestion doesn't work on my computer. I don't want to use the second because I am perfectly content to have Firefox save id and password for a lot of sites. The others I want to be more secure than what they are with the id name fill in suggestion feature.

"why do login id suggestions come up for sites without saved password"?

That nay be form history doing that autocomplete.

In Options > Privacy and Security >> under History - use clear your recent history then in Clear Recent History under Time range to clear select Everything and use the Clear Now button to clear your form history.

See if that stops the autocomplete of usernames.

As far as other users using that computer, you should have a "guest" logon account setup in Windows7 for other people to use. Sloppy computing for "guests" to use your logon user account; a basic "security" feature that should be setup the first time a new computer is used.

carbro said

The first suggestion doesn't work on my computer.

You should be able to delete those usernames on any computer (?) Instead of just 'hover' try to click and then press 'Delete' - see if that works. That's how I deleted mine (just experimented a little till I got it right)

Tried clearing all history, including the forms part, and it worked, but after that I couldn't log into the one site at all-- had to change my password, which may have been coincidental, but now I dare not try it again. Besides, it started up again today.

It is not guests I'm worried about-- it's the uninvited.

To Happy112: I tried delete and right-click delete and neither worked. I guess I will just have to be ultra careful in my typing, but I do think that some programmer somewhere just didn't give any thought to the security ramifications of this "feature."

carbro said

To Happy112: I tried delete and right-click delete and neither worked. I guess I will just have to be ultra careful in my typing, but I do think that some programmer somewhere just didn't give any thought to the security ramifications of this "feature."

Give it a few more tries - if I can do it : you definately can  !

You can use these steps to remove saved (form) data from a drop-down list:

1. click the (empty) input field on the web page to open the drop-down list
2. highlight an entry in the drop-down list with cursor Down key
   do not click the mouse or press the Enter key
3. press the Delete key (on Mac: Shift+Delete) to delete the highlighted entry

Note that hovering with the mouse no longer works.

You can also remove unused user names in the Password Manager.

• Options/Preferences -> Security: Logins: "Saved Logins" -> "Show Passwords"

Thank you, cor-el. That does indeed work. But I imagine I will have to do it often-- it's a problem that just came up-- never used to happen and shouldn't happen now IMO.