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Form fill won't fill only certain email address

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I am using Yahoo mail. We had to delete on email address from the passwords list due to a password change. Since deleting it, Firefox's form fill will work with all of my email addresses except for the one whose original password was deleted.

I am using Yahoo mail. We had to delete on email address from the passwords list due to a password change. Since deleting it, Firefox's form fill will work with all of my email addresses except for the one whose original password was deleted.

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If the problem is with saving a new name and password for Yahoo the check this:

The Yahoo website uses autocomplete=off to prevent Firefox from saving form data like name and password.

You can remove autocomplete=off with a bookmarklet to make Firefox store form data like names and passwords.

Note that Firefox won't auto-fill saved form data automatically when autocomplete=off is used, so you need to double-click the empty name field to get a drop-down list.


Alternatively you can right-click the name input field and open the built-in Inspector via Inspect Element.
You can see if there is an autocomplete=off attribute and click the "off" text to edit this value and change it "off" to "on", so you get autocomplete="on".
Repeat this for the password input field, so both fields have an autocomplete="on" attribute.

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Do you see any lines with an empty name or password field in the Password Manager?

  • Tools > Options > Security: Passwords: "Saved Passwords" > "Show Passwords"

Otherwise you may have to check the signons.sqlite file in the SQLite Manager extension to see if you notice entries that look corrupt.

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thanks for your reply. I have no empty names or password fields in the Password Manager (with respect to login.yahoo.com).

I downloaded the SQLite Manager, but have no idea what I am looking at/for.

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If the problem is with saving a new name and password for Yahoo the check this:

The Yahoo website uses autocomplete=off to prevent Firefox from saving form data like name and password.

You can remove autocomplete=off with a bookmarklet to make Firefox store form data like names and passwords.

Note that Firefox won't auto-fill saved form data automatically when autocomplete=off is used, so you need to double-click the empty name field to get a drop-down list.


Alternatively you can right-click the name input field and open the built-in Inspector via Inspect Element.
You can see if there is an autocomplete=off attribute and click the "off" text to edit this value and change it "off" to "on", so you get autocomplete="on".
Repeat this for the password input field, so both fields have an autocomplete="on" attribute.

Muokattu , muokkaaja cor-el

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That did it! Thanks you! (used Inspector)

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You're welcome