The Password Manager in Firefox is a great feature, but I noticed that password autofill didn’t seem to work with all sites. Now I know why:
Some sites, including many banks and a few other sites such as Yahoo Mail and Microsoft Passport, tell browsers not to remember passwords for visitors using autocomplete=“off”. This bookmarklet makes the browser ignore autocomplete=“off” temporarily, allowing you to save passwords even on sites that use autocomplete=“off”.
For those of you unfamiliar with bookmarklets, they’re basically bookmarks with embedded JavaScript commands rather than URLs; there is a good selection of bookmarklets available here. Bookmarklets can be dragged to the toolbar of Firefox, in this case creating a button that, when pressed just before entering a password at a site where autocomplete is turned off, will direct Firefox to thereafter remember the password and autofill it for you. I got it to work at Yahoo and look forward to trying out a couple of banking sites that had the same issue.
