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how to have email address and passwords rememberd

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How does one get computer to remember email address and password.There is no drop down question asking whether to remembe,r as I have in my office computer

How does one get computer to remember email address and password.There is no drop down question asking whether to remembe,r as I have in my office computer

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Firefox won't offer to store new passwords if you are in Private Browsing mode. You are in PB mode if you see a "Stop Private Browsing" item in the Tools menu.

Some sites 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 (bookmarklet) http://kb.mozillazine.org/Password_Manager

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