Comments on: Why Can’t Firefox Remember del.icio.us Passwords?

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Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:41:13 +0000

[...] when I get online. Luckly, Elliotte Rusty Harold had noticed this mis-feature too, and has found a solution to get del.icio.us to accept the passwords remembered by Firefox. Be sure to read the comments to his post, since his helpful readers have provided several [...]

By: Elliotte Rusty Harold

Elliotte Rusty Harold — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:35:58 +0000

It seems you’re right. Not sure how I missed that. Thanks!

autocomplete=”off” is really obnoxious (and insecure). Only the client knows whether it can safely store the password on a given machine. In my case, if I can autocomplete passwords, then I use a very hard to guess, randomly generated password that’s unique for the site. If I can’t autocomplete, I have to use something more memorable, less unique, and less secure.

By: Carey

Carey — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:19:59 +0000

I think the culprit in both cases is the autocomplete attribute. There are a number of Greasemonkey scripts to remove it from various sites.

By: douglips

douglips — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:11:27 +0000

There is an attribute for the form called "autocomplete", and if a website sets this to "off" then a browser will not attempt to remember the password. There is a firefox extension and bookmarklet designed to "fix" this. firefox extension bookmarklet There are however other ways to prevent your browser from remembering the password, such as having a fake password field or some kind of javascript form submission, so this might not always work for paranoid sites.