Firefox is not remembering passwords under OS X Lion
I did a clean install of Lion and then Firefox 5.
Firefox doesn't retain log-in credentials for any sites, despite "remember passwords" being activated and cookies being allowed. I have it set up the same way as my SnowLeopard system, which remembers credentials fine.
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Please see this support article on Usernames and passwords are not saved. Let me know if this helps.
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Thanks, but none of the settings mentioned in that article is the source of the problem.
It looks like Firefox has some fundamental problem under Lion, because every time I restart the system and Firefox, I get a page from one of the extensions I installed saying, "Congratulations! You just installed FlashVideoDownloader..."
It looks like Firefox is not saving several states, for some reason.
Modified by stokestack
Do you mean names and passwords in the Password Manager or do you mean that you are no longer logged on to (remembered by) websites after closing and restarting Firefox?
There is a difference between remembering the name and password in the Password Manager and a "remember me" check box on a web page.
The latter usually involves the creation of a special "remember me" cookie that is stored on your computer and that is send to the server.
If that "remember me" cookie is removed or gets corrupted or is not send to the server then the server won't remember you and you need to sign in once again.
My credentials are no longer remembered by Web sites, whether they explicitly offer the option or not. This afflicts all the sites I visit that have log-ins, so one corrupt cookie wouldn't explain it.
Password Manager sometimes works, but much of the time it doesn't offer to remember log-in credentials at all. For example, on this site; I logged in and was never asked if I wanted to remember the password.