Hello! I am running out of ideas.
I do the IT support for my dad (85+ years):
Firefox 70.0.1 64 bit on Windows 10 Home 64 bit, all up to date.
He has various passwords … (閱讀更多)
Hello! I am running out of ideas.
I do the IT support for my dad (85+ years):
Firefox 70.0.1 64 bit on Windows 10 Home 64 bit, all up to date.
He has various passwords saved in FF, but I specifically instructed FF to exempt the sites he uses for Online Banking sites from saving passwords.
"Access & Passwords" > Exceptions: sites listed (entered by clicking "NEVER save" when asked on login).
I have FF delete all data upon closure:
"Delete history when FF is closed" all EXCEPT for "Website Settings" (which I learned would also kill the password save barrier)
Now, I don't know what my dad does; every time I check after a week these settings are gone and FF is happily back, offering the saved login details to his Online Banking sites, also the Exception list is empty. My dad cannot say what he did to change this and maintains "he didn't do anything" (see also: typical IT support customer statements).
Sometimes I find he has even reinstalled FF for no good reason (which I can see in the Apps bar). But this should not affect the Profile settings, and even if he should have agreed to delete profile data: the bookmarks are still there, so it's not all gone.
For now I have deactivated FF from saving any passwords, which is the safe choice when Online Banking is involved (no, my dad won't agree to close the Online Banking Account altogether go to the bank). But this creates new problems with all the other less sensitive sites where he needs to enter passwords (newspaper sites etc.), which he misplaces and keeps on resetting them (to passwords which he will again not remember the next time round).
My next thought was to set permissions.sqlite to read-only, as I found this is where FF stores the exception list. Unfortunately, I realized that FF apparently updates this file every time it's run and ignores it if it finds it is out of sync with what it expects, returning to the clear sheet. So this doesn't help.
I guess I could set up an autorun batch file to delete the profile directory and restore a golden reference directory, but this could be error-prone too.
So I was wondering if the community can point me to a way to permanently fix a given list of Password-Save-Exceptions which cannot be altered by the user? Something like a config setting, available or hidden?
Thanks for any advice or pointers,
Akebinko