Why doesn't Firefox on Ubuntu fill in passwords on forms?

Chris Mohler cr33dog at gmail.com
Sat Mar 7 06:00:49 UTC 2009


On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Matthew Flaschen
<matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Chris Mohler wrote:
>> In short: no.  I can access most sites with stored passwords using
>> Ubuntu 8.10 and FF3. There are exceptions though - notably Paypal.
>
> That's deliberate.

Yes I know - just thought it worth mentioning in regard to the OP's
question.  ie, "out of the box" password completion *should* work for
most sites, but there are exceptions.  I sense a deeper problem than
autocomplete=0.

Chris




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list