David E. Ross wrote:
> On 2/9/2015 3:28 AM, Michael Ströder wrote:
>> David E. Ross wrote:
>>> Acting on a suggestion in an earlier thread in this newsgroup (or was it
>>> in the mozilla.general newsgroup?), I installed SeaMonkey 2.32.1,
>>> removed the Remember Passwords 1.1 extension, and installed the Saved
>>> Password Editor 2.8.2 extension.  I then found that my master password
>>> was no longer being requested, and automatic filling in user IDs and
>>> passwords no longer occurred.
>>
>> Since recent firefox and seamonkey now ignore the autocomplete=off on 
>> password
>> input fields you can just use SeaMonkey 2.32.1 without such an extension.
>>
>> Triggering the username/password auto-fill is a bit clumsy though as it does
>> not always just work. Clicking the password field before double-clicking the
>> username field seems to always work. Did not have the time to do in-depth
>> tests for a bug report yet.
> 
> Yes, autocomplete=off is generally ignored only when inputting a new
> password.  Then Password Manager will indeed allow the user to save the
> password.

It uses my old password stored before (with Remember Passwords extension).

> My experience, however, is that autocomplete=off is not ignored for
> passwords already saved if the user ID and password are entered in
> separate Web pages, a situation that is becoming more and more common.
> In that case, the password is not filled in.

You have to dig out the details on what makes the web page "separate".

At the moment things work for me.

Ciao, Michael.

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