Why does firefox 4.0.1 password history prompt disappear after av=bout 1 second so you can't tell it to remember a new password when I change the password for a site?
I upgraded from 3.6 to 4.0.1 and now the prompt to save a site's password appears in a small popup instead of on a line below the toolbar. When I change a site's password and that site's link creates a new window, the password popup is only visible for about a second before I am redirected to the new site window. If I switch back to the original window the password save prompt is no longer there so the new password is not stored in the history profile. This site always creates a new window instead of a new tab when I log in despite the tab settings I try to set.
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Is the key icon on the location bar gone as well as this happens?
Yes, the key icon is there after I switch back to the primary window after the application switches me to the alternate window.
If you have the key icon then you can click that icon to make the remember password pop-up dialog appear.
Well, until you pointed out the key icon I hadn't even noticed it was there. The popup that first appears goes away too fast to be able to associate it with something else on the first window. However, now that you pointed it out to me, the key icon does indeed present the popup so I can save the revised password. Not exactly intuitive, at least to me, but it works.