Not sure if Paypal embedded something in their page or if Firefox most recent update is the cause. I'm working on finding out.
All I know is it is something new. My setup has been all-good, then it just quit working the way it always has. So, I paid attention to my screen. Seems like something in the Paypal page has hijacked the upper information bar in Firefox. I can see it TRYING to ask me if I want it to remember the password, but it disappears so fast all by itself.
I had my password saved a very long time ago and it has been working just fine until very recently. So, Paypal code seems to have deleted the remembered password from the Firefox database and it is not even letting the browser get an answer from ME if I want it remembered again.
There HAS to be a lawsuit in there somewhere....
On a related note, I'm beginning to trust Firefox less and less. Somehow somebody malicious managed to get on the development team. And commercial class spies have made it in, too.
'Splain me this:
Firefox used to be so BIG about blocking cookies and the claims to be a safer browser. Yet, now my toolbar gets hacked an almost a regular basis, my prompt to remember password doesn't always work (as some others have noticed), and what is WITH the DOM storage? That should have NEVER EVER been included...
My system has not been infiltrated in any other way. Also, I just put together a brand new machine and installed XP Pro SP2 64 Bit directly from the factory disk. Installed all my 3rd party software (including Firefox) from discs or local files from USB archive. Was not connected to internet for any of that, didn't even add my network driver and plug in the Cat5e until everything was finished. Same thing as all my other machines.
Firefox has gotten weak!
Last edited by Vicvelcro; 04-21-2009 at 12:17 PM.
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