Whenever you login into the websites, you need to provide login credentials. Mozilla Firefox provides a feature to save login credentials and next time when you log in to the websites; you do need to provide these details again. Mozilla Firefox will automatically fill in the login credentials for you.
You need to enable this feature in Mozilla Firefox to allow the browser to save the login credentials. Saving the login credentials is NOT enough; you need to protect them to avoid unauthorized access. I will discuss this in another article.
In this article, we will discuss enabling the feature to save the login details.
Enable Mozilla Firefox to prompt to save the passwords
Step 1. Open Mozilla Firefox and open the Preferences page. You can open the Preferences page, by clicking on “Open menu” (which is far right of the window) and clicking on the Preferences menu item.
Or you can type “about:preferences” in the URL or Address field to directly open the Preferences page.
Step 2. Select the “Privacy & Security” option, which will take you to the Browser Privacy options.
Or you can directly jump to this page by entering the path “about:preferences#privacy” in the Address field.
Step 3. Under Forms & Passwords, select the “Remember logins and passwords for websites” checkbox to prompt the browser to save the login details whenever you login into the websites.
Step 4. Now open any website and login into the site using the login credentials. Mozilla Firefox browser will prompt the dialog to allow to save the password or discard them.
By clicking the Save button, login credentials will be saved. If you click on the Don’t Save button, the credentials will NOT be saved.
If you DO NOT want the browser to prompt to save the password for the particular website, you click on the drop-down box next to Don’t Save button and select Never Save. By selecting this, Mozilla Firefox never prompts to save the passwords for the particular website(s). You can change these options whenever you want.
We will discuss more topics in my Upcoming Articles.
🙂 Sahida
Does not matter how many times you tell Firefox to “never” save the credentials for a particular website it will always ask the next time, very annoying.
Hello,
When you enable the option, Firefox prompts to save the logins. If it NOT means, you might have excluded to prompt to save logins for your website(s). This can be managed through “Manage Saved Logins and Exceptions“.
🙂 Sahida
I already knew how to check that box. Now how about telling me how to FORCE Firefox to save logins since checking that box has no effect whatsoever.