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Clicking Exceptions for Saved Passwords does not allow typing.

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I am using Firefox 9.0.1 with Mac Lion 10.7.2. I wanted to create an exception to saving passwords. I accessed this in preferences and with "Remember Passwords For Sites" checked, clicked Exceptions. The field does not receive type. (I can't get my cursor to set within the field so I am unable to enter a site.) Does anyone else using Lion have this issue? Thanks.

I am using Firefox 9.0.1 with Mac Lion 10.7.2. I wanted to create an exception to saving passwords. I accessed this in preferences and with "Remember Passwords For Sites" checked, clicked Exceptions. The field does not receive type. (I can't get my cursor to set within the field so I am unable to enter a site.) Does anyone else using Lion have this issue? Thanks.

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If you want to make an Exception, here's how you can do it:

-> IF your Username & Password is already stored by Firefox, you need to Delete it

-> IF your Username & Password is not currently stored by Firefox yet, when you Login to the website it will ask if you want Firefox to Remember them

  • Remember Password prompt will appear (screenshot attached)
  • click the drop-down Remember Password button and click Never Remember Password for This Site

Check and tell if its working.


-> IF you use Clear Recent History feature, DO NOT select Cookies, Forms and Search History, Active Logins, Site Preferences

-> IF you use Privacy Cleanup softwares like CCleaner, DON'T SELECT FIREFOX IN ITS SETTINGS.

  • These softwares can be responsible for Deleting your Firefox Settings.
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Thanks, mha007. This installation of Firefox 9.0.1 is new and I was surprised to notice that it has never once asked me if I'd like to remember a password. It's set in preferences to do so and, although I thought it was odd that I'm never prompted by Firefox to remember, I just figured that perhaps this is a new thing in Firefox; that if you have it checked in preferences, it no longer asks. But I see that there are no saved passwords collected, now that I check.

Perhaps it's unique to the Mac version of Firefox but in preferences, I have an Exception clink next to the option to save passwords (Firefox---> Preferences--->Security----> Passwords. What I do not see, now that I'm looking, is any place at all to set preferences for Cookies. Hmmm... I can't set cookie preferences, so I suppose it's no wonder passwords aren't saved.  :o/

This is a bit dodgy for me to sort through on the fly (I'm currently being rushed) but thanks for your reply and I'll glean through all you suggest.

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-> click Firefox button and click Preferences

  • Security panel -> place Checkmark on Remember passwords for sites -> click Exceptions... button and click Remove All button -> click Close
  • Privacy panel -> History section -> under Firefox will: select "Use Custom Settings for History"
    • Remove Checkmarks from:
      1. Always use Private Browsing mode
      2. Clear History when Firefox Closes
    • place Checkmarks on:
      1. Remember my Browsing History
      2. Remember Download History
      3. Remember Search and Form History
      4. Accept Cookies from sites -> click Exceptions button and click Remove button for all entries which have Status set to other than Allow -> Now type addresses of websites whose Cookies you want to be stored by Firefox e.g. mail.live.com , login.live.com , hotmail.com , msn.com , mail.yahoo.com , login.yahoo.com , yahoo.com , mail.google.com , google.com , etc. & click Allow button for each of these websites (One by One)
      5. Accept Third-party Cookies -> under Keep Until : select They Expire -> click Close
  • Click OK on Preferences window -> Restart Firefox

Check and tell if its working.

Endret av Hasan

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Thanks, so much. It was a bit of a maze, but I've found my way out. I appreciate your help.