{"id":13552,"date":"2005-04-05T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/05\/save-passwords-in-firefox-bookmarklet\/"},"modified":"2005-04-05T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T15:59:00","slug":"save-passwords-in-firefox-bookmarklet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/05\/save-passwords-in-firefox-bookmarklet\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Passwords In Firefox Bookmarklet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/?q=affiliates&amp;id=8178&amp;t=70\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Firefox\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/icons\/firefox_get.gif\" \/><\/a>The Password Manager in Firefox is a great feature, but I noticed that password autofill didn&rsquo;t seem to work with all sites.  <a href=\"http:\/\/pchere.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/save-yahoo-hotmail-passwords-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">Now I know why<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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=&ldquo;off&rdquo;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/bookmarklets\/forms.html#remember_password\" target=\"_blank\">This bookmarklet<\/a> makes the browser ignore autocomplete=&ldquo;off&rdquo; temporarily, allowing you to save passwords even on sites that use autocomplete=&ldquo;off&rdquo;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those of you unfamiliar with bookmarklets, they&rsquo;re basically bookmarks with embedded JavaScript commands rather than URLs; there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squarefree.com\/bookmarklets\/\" target=\"_blank\">good selection of bookmarklets available here<\/a>.  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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/pchere.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Quick Online Tips<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-111271138605592589?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Password Manager in Firefox is a great feature, but I noticed that password autofill didn&rsquo;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=&ldquo;off&rdquo;. This bookmarklet &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/05\/save-passwords-in-firefox-bookmarklet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Save Passwords In Firefox Bookmarklet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}