This site will have limited functionality while we undergo maintenance to improve your experience. If an article doesn't solve your issue and you want to ask a question, we have our support community waiting to help you at @FirefoxSupport on Twitter and/r/firefox on Reddit.

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

Saves some id's and passwords but not all of them. Why?

  • 1 cavab
  • 1 has this problem
  • 1 view
  • Last reply by cor-el

more options

Firefox saves some id's and passwords for some sites but not all. Why

Firefox saves some id's and passwords for some sites but not all. Why

All Replies (1)

more options

Some sites (like and others) like PayPal, Yahoo, Windows Live and bank sites use autocomplete="off" to prevent Firefox from saving the name and the password.

If a site uses autocomplete="off" then look at this article for a bookmarklet to remove that autocomplete attribute. http://kb.mozillazine.org/User_name_and_password_not_remembered https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/forms.html#remember_password (bookmarklet)

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet