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Live bookmark (RSS Feed) that requires a login will not load automatically.

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I have a live bookmark that points to www.photoshopuser.com/feed. This feed requires a login with my Usrname and pword. I have entered these and FF (latest version) has them stored. If I open the site from the live bookmark, the site loads at the login screen with the username/pwd filled in. I then have to press enter. After this the bookmark loads but not until. Is there a way to have a live bookmark login in to a site. IE does not have this problem. What if anything can I do?

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I have a live bookmark that points to www.photoshopuser.com/feed. This feed requires a login with my Usrname and pword. I have entered these and FF (latest version) has them stored. If I open the site from the live bookmark, the site loads at the login screen with the username/pwd filled in. I then have to press enter. After this the bookmark loads but not until. Is there a way to have a live bookmark login in to a site. IE does not have this problem. What if anything can I do? Tony...

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Hi cor-el. I appreciate the pointer to another RSS reader. That is indeed a workaround, but it doesn't fix my problem on FF. IE 9 (heaven forbid!) handles this functionality just fine and I want FF to be able to do that too. I like a lot about FF but, it's creating more work for me to get my feeds.

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Firefox currently doesn't support RSS feeds that require authentication AFAIK (I had seen this mentioned before), so that is the probably best way to deal with this right now.

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Thanks cor-el. I was drawing that conclusion just from my experience. Looks like it's back to my old way!