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Why sometimes the "Remember Password" prompt does not appear?

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Rajkanth
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I have an account in a mail service (say xyz.com). When I login to that mail service via Firefox (first-time), it shows the "Remember Password" prompt that asks me to decide whether I want to save the password or not. I tapped "Remember" button and whenever I visit that xyz.com, Firefox fills my username & password. It's cool.

But recently, I changed my xyz.com's password and Firefox does not show the "Update" prompt. I checked in its preference and it still hold my old password. So I simply removed that old password from Firefox's database & I again tried to login with my new password in xyz.com. I guessed that Firefox will again show "Remember Password" prompt. But it doesn't.

Is there any way to save my new password in Firefox database?

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I have an account in a mail service (say xyz.com). When I login to that mail service via Firefox (first-time), it shows the "Remember Password" prompt that asks me to decide whether I want to save the password or not. I tapped "Remember" button and whenever I visit that xyz.com, Firefox fills my username & password. It's cool. But recently, I changed my xyz.com's password and Firefox does not show the "Update" prompt. I checked in its preference and it still hold my old password. So I simply removed that old password from Firefox's database & I again tried to login with my new password in xyz.com. I guessed that Firefox will again show "Remember Password" prompt. But it doesn't. Is there any way to save my new password in Firefox database? Please help me

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philipp
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hello Rajkanth, websites can specify if browsers should be able to save username/passwords (through the autocomplete="off" attribute in the login form in the html source code) and some sites choose to do this presumably to increase security.

you can either install an addon or use a bookmarklet to circumvent this behaviour.

Usernames and passwords are not saved