Unable to clear "Remember Me" passwords in FireFox
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Nov 2 20:14:26 UTC 2005
Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
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>>Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:51 AM
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>>Subject: Re: Unable to clear "Remember Me" passwords in FireFox
>>
>>
>>Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>
>>>Gahd.
>>>
>>>I set the "Remember Me" password for swat in my FireFox
>>>Browser, and doing a Preference->Privacy->Saved Password
>>>CLEAR button doe not remove this setting!
>>>
>>>I deleted ~/.mozilla and that does not work either???
>>>
>>>Can someone direct me how to clear the password setting?
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>Dan
>>>
>>
>>Check for cookies used by swat. I think you will find that this is
>>where the password is saved.
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> Any idea where cookies are stored? Via FireFox Preferences, I
> deleted all cookies but dunno if there are cookies saved elsewhere...
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I am not sure in this case.
I would have assumed it was in the cookies.txt file. I don't use
FireFox as I prefer Mozilla and that is where they are stored.
I did find that I had to shutdown and reopen Mozilla for some cookie
changes to take effect.
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