Firefox not remembering details

aliEnRIK

Firefox works fine for me. The only problems ive ever had are with 3rd party plugins

phill79

Your profile on FF is corrupt. You need to delete it and create another profile and you should then be able to start saving things again.

judderman62

phill79 wrote: »

Your profile on FF is corrupt. You need to delete it and create another profile and you should then be able to start saving things again.

me , op or both ?

phill79

judderman62 wrote: »

me , op or both ?

Was refering to the OP.

southernscouser

phill79 wrote: »

Your profile on FF is corrupt. You need to delete it and create another profile and you should then be able to start saving things again.

How do I do this please?

ManAtHome

judderman62 wrote: »

who me or op ? I'm on XP Home

Possibly both.... FF runs ok for me on XP Home and Pro (Desktop1 and Laptop1), but I had major problems with 3.4+ on Win2K (Laptop2).

Enlightenment

This happened to a friend of mine yesterday;

Go here and create a new profile and it will then start remembering again, the registry key has got corrupted.

Hamleteer

As stated, delete the profile and create another one. I had to do this yesterday as FF has somehow been corrupted in the latest upgrade. It is slightly annoying, but you'll have to type in the passwords again - write them down before deleting the profile if you are unsure (to ssee them go to Tools>Options>Security and click on the Saved Passwords button. It will give you the option to show the stored passwords in the new window.

ktuludays

it is not your profile or your settings it is your cookies

try this:
Firefox 3.0+ stores cookies in a file called cookies.sqlite. These cookies include password/log-in info from sites that supply such - like VideoHelp.

What has likely happened is that your cookies file is corrupt. Using Firefox's "Delete Cookies" to clear out cookie info won't be enough, because the cookies.sqlite file itself is still there and so are the problems. You must delete the entire file. Don't worry - Firefox will create a new version the next time you start up the browser.

To delete the cookie.sqlite file, first exit completely out of Firefox, then go to Windows Explorer. Place the following text into the Address Bar ..

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

You should then see an oddly named folder with .default as the extension name (if not, tell Explorer to show extension names).

Now, click-on this folder and look for the file cookies.sqlite, then delete it.

Suggestion - Before deleting the cookies file, write down the username and password info used at each site requiring them. Then after you delete the cookies file, re-enter Firefox, go to all the sites where you put in log-in info and re-enter all such info.

After this, exit out of Firefox, then go back to Windows Explorer and re-visit the folder where cookies.sqlite is and copy it to a different folder.

Now, if you should start having log-in problems again, just copy over the back-up file which will write over the current cookies.sqlite file. If you have joined new sites with log-in requirements since, then save such info accordingly and backup the cookies.sqlite file again.

this worked for me and i have had no problems since

southernscouser

ktuludays wrote: »

it is not your profile or your settings it is your cookies

try this:
Firefox 3.0+ stores cookies in a file called cookies.sqlite. These cookies include password/log-in info from sites that supply such - like VideoHelp.

What has likely happened is that your cookies file is corrupt. Using Firefox's "Delete Cookies" to clear out cookie info won't be enough, because the cookies.sqlite file itself is still there and so are the problems. You must delete the entire file. Don't worry - Firefox will create a new version the next time you start up the browser.

To delete the cookie.sqlite file, first exit completely out of Firefox, then go to Windows Explorer. Place the following text into the Address Bar ..

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

You should then see an oddly named folder with .default as the extension name (if not, tell Explorer to show extension names).

Now, click-on this folder and look for the file cookies.sqlite, then delete it.

Suggestion - Before deleting the cookies file, write down the username and password info used at each site requiring them. Then after you delete the cookies file, re-enter Firefox, go to all the sites where you put in log-in info and re-enter all such info.

After this, exit out of Firefox, then go back to Windows Explorer and re-visit the folder where cookies.sqlite is and copy it to a different folder.

Now, if you should start having log-in problems again, just copy over the back-up file which will write over the current cookies.sqlite file. If you have joined new sites with log-in requirements since, then save such info accordingly and backup the cookies.sqlite file again.

this worked for me and i have had no problems since

Top banana. Worked a treat. Thanks mate. :beer: