On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:23 AM, jdd-gmane <[email protected]> wrote: > II have the same problem. I think Firefox try guessing what page he is > loading to know what passwd to use, but he is fooled by the PmWiki > headers to think all are the same page. > > I don't think it's a Firefox problem, but a PmWiki one (probably skin > one), but I don't know how to fix this. Most of the time a browser can > manage passwd with login, but when there is no login... it's more > difficult
I don't pretend to be an expert on this, so I may be way off here ... but if firefox *normally* tried to remember a password based on a *page* rather than based on a *site* that wouldn't work in most cases, right? Imagine, for instance, that you are browsing in a forum and decide to log in and reply. That log-in *page* may will be on a different page each time, but you use one username and password for the *site*. If firefox tried to remember a different password for each *page* then it would be useless in this forum example. Similarly for many other types of sites that offer different ways to login. Often there is a login at the top of every page on a site, just to be convenient -- but you are going to use the same username/password on each of these pages. PmWiki is the exception in that it allows so much flexibility, offering the possibility of n different passwords on each page. However, even on PmWiki I'm guessing that roughly 95% of users only ever use a single password for their entire usage on the site. Generally it would be only administrators or power users that would have access to multiple different passwords (although I'm sure there are various exceptions to this). So all this to say, I think Firefox is doing the right thing by remembering one password per *site* rather than per *page*. If you want a more robust password manager you may want to consider something like LastPass (free) or RoboForm ($$$) as I believe both of these packages will allow multiple passwords per site and take their best guess based on various criteria (or at least let you choose which one you want)... Just my $0.02... -Peter _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
