Firefox cannot log in to web sites

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2014-07
  • Demetri

    I cannot login to certain websites on Firefox 30. Previously, I was shown a prompt asking for a username and password. Now, I get no prompt and a blank page.

    This prevents me from using Firefox to access my university accounts. The problem persists after resetting Firefox.

    The problem does not occur on websites that have their own login pages, such as Google.

    How do I fix this problem?

    • Answers
  • HyperText404

    First off, try to make sure it isn't a problem with said websites. If you can, try opening the problem websites in another browser, such as Google Chrome. If they still don't work on those browsers, it is most likely an issue with the websites themselves.

    If not, Mozilla has a page pertaining to this issue, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fix-login-issues-on-websites-require-passwords. You could try the solutions there.

    If those don't work, you could try disabling the pop-up blocker. Click on the Menu Button, go to options, and go to the "Content" tab. Uncheck the "Block Pop-up windows" box and click "OK."

    You could try just installing a fresh copy of Firefox at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/.


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  • Deleted

    This questions concerns Firefox 3.0.12 on Linux.

    I have multiple Wordpress installs on one domain, let's call it foo.com. For this example I only need two, I have foo.com/one and foo.com/two. Both of these have their own database and their own Admin account.

    The problem is that Firefox sees these two as the same account. If I regester {Admin,Password} for foo.com/two last it will suggest the /two password when I later am about to login at /one too.

    Is there a way to solve this?


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  • Chris Thompson

    This isn't an answer to your direct issue but Opera already does this. When it asks to save a password you can tell it to save it for the current URL only (domain.com/path).

  • MV.

    Use a different browser. Firefox developers have decided the current behavior (match domain + username) is the only way (which was different in Firefox 2.x). See the Firefox bugs:

    Bug 263387 passwords should be stored for host+path and not just host

    Bug 444333 Password not saved for multiple login within same domain

    Bug 436275 wrong password filled in when same login is used for different forms

    All those bug reports are marked as "wontfix", meaning the developers think is not really a problem or is too hard to solve or it will create more problems.

    The last bug report even includes a Javascript patch (which only works in Firefox 3.6) which changed the behavior of the password manager to match the domain + user field (not the username) but it could be modified to store the complete URL or anything else.

    Finally, I don't know of any Firefox addon that allow to store the same username for the same domain for different sites/applications (at least not those addons which use the Firefox Password Manager, maybe those replacing or using an external password storage can do it).