{"id":1179,"date":"2009-07-10T09:36:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T08:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2018-03-01T09:27:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T09:27:49","slug":"stop-websites-turning-off-the-remember-password-browser-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/stop-websites-turning-off-the-remember-password-browser-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop websites turning off the “remember password” browser feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m currently in the process of incorporating a company and www.businesslink.gov.uk is my friend (now gone away but there is https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/browse\/business<\/a>), especially the “Business start-up organiser” which is the ultimate “to do” list of things that need to be done. However, I found the site was annoying in that it kept logging me out if I went away for 5 minutes and the login procedure is frustrating because it asks you for a long number and doesn’t remember it. To force Firefox to remember the login details you need to edit a settings file, nsLoginManager.js<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n
\"firefox_ubuntu\"<\/a><\/td>\n\n
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  • Edit the settings file. e.g. in Ubuntu: sudo emacs -nw \/usr\/lib\/xulrunner-1.9.0.11\/components\/nsLoginManager.js<\/code><\/li>\n
  • Find the “_isAutocompleteDisabled<\/code>” function and change it so it always returns false<\/li>\n
  • Save the file and restart Firefox<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

    I’m going to add this to the list of “Essential things to do immediately after installing an Operating system” as it saves so much time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’m currently in the process of incorporating a company and www.businesslink.gov.uk is my friend (now gone away but there is https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/browse\/business), especially the “Business start-up organiser” which is the ultimate “to do” list of things that need to be done. However, I found the site was annoying in that it kept logging me out if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techjournal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}