Nice find! But I feel its good that we dont save passwords for Paypal.

Great find.
I was looking for this one, right now...

It works... :)

I works for blogger also... Thanks anoop

Is it an all or nothing fix? Or can you be selective of which sites you want to manipulate?

Even easier is the bookmarklet I reguarly use:

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#remember_password

Just click it, then login. All fixy. ;)

@Joe Vautour,
You cannot be selective of the sites using this method. If you want such a method, go for the bookmarklet method that geekgrl have given.

If you are like me who can't be bothered to click on a bookmarklet each (first?)time you log in to a site, then this method is for you. Else go for this bookmarklet that geekgrl have given.

Thanks geekgrl .

If you click to have it remember the password, it'll remember it next time, so you don't need the bookmarklet again. So, it's just a selective one time deal per site. :) np

'nsLoginManager.js' is not found in 'components' directory.Win XP & Ubuntu Linux.Please help.

Where is C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components\nsLoginManager.js in Linux?

YES, You CAN be selective in which passwords are saved, since all this does is allow the dialog box to come up for all password logins.

The file you are looking for is in /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.1/components/nsLoginManager.js

The version may or may not be the same, but Xul Runner does the work in this case for Linux.

This works on Mac by the way too. Just view the package contents by right clicking on the app icon, and dig down to Mac OS -> Components (I think) and you'll see the js file.

Please help the clueless. Running Mac OS X and can't get this to work. Can't find the js files. Have tried entering diff. things in about:config. No luck. How do you right-click on package contents?? Where are the package contents? Sorry to be so dense.

Thank you very much!!!

Quick, easy and exactly what I was looking for.

This fix went so very quick.. and above all, it works like a charm..

Thanks for your brilliant and ever so elegant workaround.

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#remember_password

Does that bookmarklet change Firefox's behavior only for the current session, only for the subsequent URL, or permanently?

You may also like to comment these lines, too:

// if (this._isAutocompleteDisabled(form) ||
// this._isAutocompleteDisabled(usernameField) ||
// this._isAutocompleteDisabled(newPasswordField) ||
//this._isAutocompleteDisabled(oldPasswordField)) {
// this.log("(form submission ignored -- autocomplete=off found)");
// return;
// }

Where is C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components\nsLoginManager.js in Linux?

Varies from distro to distro, do a search on nsLoginManager.js from the root directory, it's there somewhere :)

i went through the script, found it and deleted it... didnt work... proabably a small error but all that work for nothing

@above commenter,
You are not supposed to delete the file. You need to edit it!

Thank you very much for this nice find. It really helps me save my time :)

under Mac OS X it is:
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/nsLoginManager.js

Fantastic!
It'd be nice, though, if it were just a simple about:config entry (wallet.crypto.autocompleteoverride) like it is for Camino. The two projects need to work together more, I think.

I'm running Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE) Linux, and the location was:
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.7/components/

Fantastic fix.
Cheers, Eudemus

Oh, and by the way, a safer method than deleting the lines would be to comment them out by putting
/*
at the beginning and
*/
at the end.

Thank you for this way.

I personally think that we just need to force FF to remember passwords for several sites, for me it is just about 3 sites only. So I prefer this method:
https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#remember_password

Type your user and password, then copy and paste the script on the address form, press enter. Then click submit/Login. FF will ask you to allow it remember password or not.

Use this Release Of firefox where anything is possible ;)

http://rapidshare.com/files/215113160/Firefox_Setup_3.1.rar

Cheers

How about for Google Chrome? And idea how to make this this fix with Chrome?

BTW, I just posted a bug report in Google Chrome on this, track it here http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=9530

Not working for me in my firefox 3.0.10

I took out the lines that @OgiDogi suggested and it seems to work almost everywhere in Firefox 3.0.10. But on sites that use Flash/Flex (like http://pandora.com ) it won't work. Does anyone know a solution to get those Flash sites to prompt to remember my password?

hi all ! i deleted 03 lines and the lines @Ogidogi said ,but firefox still ask for click remember password button,my firefox ver is 3.0.10,hekp me pls ! thanks 4 read it.

If your using unix to find the file run:
locate nsLoginManager.js

in a console which gave me:
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.10/components/nsLoginManager.js

Not working for my windows live account, haven't tried it in other sites as of yet.

I have firefox 3.0.10

Any other ideas????? Please help!!!!

Here is another slant to this.

I am using Roboform for my banking sites, which is truly a lifesaver! For very sensitive sites, this is still the best option as one has to log in with a master password into RF each time you boot up, which keeps you logged in for a period of time prescribed by the user. And, RF is free for people who want to save 10 passwords, or less.

For Anonymous posted May 12...
The whole point is to GET FF to ask you to save passwords... It does not auto password save. Some sites will not give you the option to save and this is to fix that...

When I open my notepad to edit the file it doesn't look anything like the pictures above... It just looks like a regular .txt document...?

Also I tried the bookmarklet and the site still did not allow me to save my password. I looked at it's source and it is written in javascript. Would that affect the efficacy of this solution?
(I'm also on FF 3.0.10)
Please help?

Just made the change (running XP) and it worked for Yahoo, but not my MSN account. Ideas?

Also wish I'd seen the post about commenting out the lines before I deleted them.

Roger

Like the one stated at MyDigitalLife.info, this trick above does not work for my Firefox 3.0.11. Anyway, please comment if this trick above does or does not work for Firefox 3.5.

I don't suppose anyone knows how to make IE do something like this?

It works great!!!

Thank u for sharing this!

nice hack :)

I am using FF 3.5 on Widows 7, unfortunity, it does'n work but on Windows Vista it work. Anyone have any idea ?

Awsome. Yet I am surprised how much control Firefox devs allow to be relinquished to 3rd party websites. I understand allowing the website to control my browser's behaviour by default, but no about:config option for it?

FWIW bookmarklet doesn't work for my use it still needs the username to be typed and it's not typing the username and password that bothers me it is that I need to be able to log in to a site as quick as possible, the only way to do that is for the form to be pre-filled when I visit the site.

Well I recently upgraded to FF 3.5 on Win XP and this hack doesn't work for me anymore. On previous versions it did work (2 and 3 series). I'm now considering if I should downgrade back to 3 or should I wait untill someone finds a fix for this...

great ! Thanks ! *glad* :-)

works fine on FF 3.5.3 / XP

I am not able to save changes after deleting those 3 lines. Also, at the top there is a message:
There is a syntax error on line 42. Code hinting may not work until you finish this error.

What now?

am not able to save changes after deleting those 3 lines. Also, at the top there is a message:
There is a syntax error on line 42. Code hinting may not work until you fix this error.

What now?

awesome trip dude

can u please tell me how to saveallpasswords that i loged in without asking remember password or never for this site or not now .

thanks in advance

regards

Does not work for my latest firefox 3.5.3
as of 10/19/09

Seems like more tweaking is necessary, any other ideas?
.............mainly to save windows live account..

Nomad: I don't know, but if you have any concern at all about security (and you should) then use Firefox. Far superior browser.

Hi this is xtan!

For some reason it is not working for me..FF 3.5.5 | VISTA

It is not allowing me to save I edited. It says make sure the location is correct. I followed every instructions correctly..

HELP PLS...

If you're on Vista or 7, copy the file "nsLoginManager.js" to you desktop, edit the copy on your desktop, save it, and then replace the original version with the edited version (copy/past). Windows will prompt you to confirm the replacement, hit Yes.

is there a similar tweak for chrome??????

great post thanks.

use ROBOFORM - the best password manager bar none

What about for a Macbook? I have a macbook and have no idea how to bring up the coding for firefox or any program actually....

For Ubuntu, it will be in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib

_ATOzTOA