How to save two step verification
Many sites now require two step verification. I'm using FF59.0.2 and the first problem is that the profile Save Passwords does NOT remember from boot to boot, and I have tried all the suggestions given here and none work. I don't know if this is part of the other problem, which is:
HELP tells you how to login in to multiple versions of a given website, but it doesn't tell you how to SAVE those multiple versions in the first place. Instead, password manager just replaces the existing version.
It seems to me that two-step and multiple versions are the same problem?
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Hi GomerFackworth, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "two step verification."
Many sites take your username and password, then text you a code that you need to enter. When you enter the second form of authentication, the website generally sets a persistent cookie so that you don't have to do it again on the next visit (or until that cookie is deleted).
Is that what you meant, or was it the way that some sites now split the entry of the username and the password onto separate forms? When the forms are separated, Firefox usually will show a drop-down on the password box which shows the different user names for the logins you've saved for that site, and you select from that list. Firefox doesn't track the username entered on the previous screen and fill the form automatically.
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Hi GomerFackworth, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "two step verification."
Many sites take your username and password, then text you a code that you need to enter. When you enter the second form of authentication, the website generally sets a persistent cookie so that you don't have to do it again on the next visit (or until that cookie is deleted).
Is that what you meant, or was it the way that some sites now split the entry of the username and the password onto separate forms? When the forms are separated, Firefox usually will show a drop-down on the password box which shows the different user names for the logins you've saved for that site, and you select from that list. Firefox doesn't track the username entered on the previous screen and fill the form automatically.
" Firefox doesn't track the username entered on the previous screen and fill the form automatically." Thank you, jscher2000, I think that you answered my question in this your last sentence. Your second paragraph is the scenario that has caused me problems. FF seems to always fill in the same info on both pages, one of which is wrong (Name of favorite nephew: 9Ks3v6$BuonU9ver etc.) I'm guessing that I will have to go back to using Roboform as Pkshadow suggests. See more in my response to him. Again thanks for you good help.
Thanks Pkshadow,
I have used Roboform for many years, but as I am "the old geezer who in a computer genius" to many of my neighbors who call me to remind them how to cut and paste, I have become concerned that they ignore my incessant warnings to USE A PASSWORD MANAGER!!! So I've been experimenting with using FF since it is there on their machines already now that I've convinced them to use FF.
Unfortunately, mostly we are concerned with signing in to financial sites, but now even Gmail has started to use a two step signin, and I can no longer get T'bird to SMTP my messages - the two step authentication stops outgoing mail dead. As for my neighbors ............
I have to admit that I prefer the way things were a few years ago. I personally have used 16 digit random generation for many years and never been hacked. But now it seems everything has to be geared to the people who think that password is a good password, That's just me being crotchety.
Again, thanks for your help.