Re: [tlug] FireFox will no longer save login information

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:01:16PM +0900, Dave M G wrote:
> TLUG,
> 
> 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.
> 

Is there any chance that your new $HOME/.mozilla folder isn't owned by
you?  Sometimes, firefox will do this--you'll start it up, it won't work
properly, and it turns out that you don't have read write permissions on
your own $HOME/.mozilla directory.

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Scott Robbins

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