[tlug] FireFox will no longer save login information

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

TLUG,

I have a plugin for FireFox that enables me to access turn on debug mode 
for Zend Studio within FireFox.

It was causing FireFox to have some errors, and after talking with the 
support staff at Zend, the solution turned out to be to shut down 
FireFox, move my FireFox settings folder out of its place in my home 
directory, then restart FireFox. This caused FireFox to recreate a 
setting directory with fresh, default settings.

This solved the Zend plugin problem, as it worked fine after that.

Since I still had my old settings directory backed up, so for some 
things, like my bookmarks, I copied them back in to the new settings 
folder. For other things, like my StumbleUpon plugin, I just made a 
fresh install.

However, since all this happened, I've lost the ability for FireFox to 
save stored login information, like usernames and passwords for sites 
that I access frequently. Since I do some web development, I'm always 
logging in and out of control panels and site management interfaces. So 
not having the ability to store login information is quite tedious.

Unfortunately, the Zend support staff would not provide any more 
assistance at this point, since it was no longer directly Zend related.

I've gone through the FireFox Preferences interface to ensure that the 
"Clear Private Data" settings does not clear saved passwords. I don't 
clear private data when closing FireFox.

Under "Security", in the "Passwords" section, I have "Remember passwords 
for sites" clicked on, and I have no exceptions listed.

Is there something I am missing or that I can try that anyone can suggest?

Thank you for any advice or help.

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Dave M G
Ubuntu Feisty 7.04
Kernel 2.6.20-16-386