After clearing my cache, if I sign into a site with my username/password, I get "Would you like Firefox to remember this password" How can I avoid this?
I clear my cache frequently. Every time I clear my cache, and proceed to sign into e-mail, facebook, whatever... I get the same question all over again.
"Would you like Firefox to remember this password"
How can I permanently disable this?
Isisombululo esikhethiwe
You can disable the Password Manager if you never want to store a name and password.
- Tools > Options > Security: Passwords: [] "Remember passwords for sites"
Otherwise you can click the key icon at the left end of the location/address bar if Firefox asks to store a password and possibly click never to create a block exception.
In case you use "Clear history when Firefox closes" or otherwise clear history.
- do not clear the Site Preferences
- Tools > Options > Privacy > Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history": [X] "Clear history when Firefox closes" > Settings
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/remove-recent-browsing-search-and-download-history
- Clearing "Site Preferences" clears all exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, software installation, passwords, and other website specific data.
- Clearing Cookies will remove all selected cookies including cookies with an allow exception that you want to keep.
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Two questions to get you the most relevant information:
(1) How are you clearing Firefox's cache now? For example, using:
- "Clear Recent History"
- Options > Advanced > Network, as described in this article: How to clear the Firefox cache
- Some other method
(2) Which approach do you want:
- You NEVER want to use Firefox's Password Manager
- You DO want to use the Password Manager for some sites, but you want Firefox to remember the sites where you say "Never for this site"
Isisombululo Esikhethiwe
You can disable the Password Manager if you never want to store a name and password.
- Tools > Options > Security: Passwords: [] "Remember passwords for sites"
Otherwise you can click the key icon at the left end of the location/address bar if Firefox asks to store a password and possibly click never to create a block exception.
In case you use "Clear history when Firefox closes" or otherwise clear history.
- do not clear the Site Preferences
- Tools > Options > Privacy > Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history": [X] "Clear history when Firefox closes" > Settings
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/remove-recent-browsing-search-and-download-history
- Clearing "Site Preferences" clears all exceptions for cookies, images, pop-up windows, software installation, passwords, and other website specific data.
- Clearing Cookies will remove all selected cookies including cookies with an allow exception that you want to keep.
Thanks very much for the suggestions, I appreciate your help!
I was simply using the "Clear all history" option under the History button.
I didn't realize that I could set additional preferences under the 'Options' tab. Thanks very much for all of the advice. I really appreciate other people's help, as I'm not a power user on the computer, and I wasn't aware of these features under the Options tab, but will use them more intelligently now!
One other note: the Clear Recent History dialog has a button to expand and show the various categories of data that get cleared. It's a good idea to uncheck "Site Preferences" so that your individual site permissions are preserved.