bobbyrae

Like I said, it really isn't about Firefox. I just upgraded to the latest version and then went to a site I hadn't been to in years. I checked the "remember me" box, but it never remembers. I am not sure what it means to have FF create a blank profile for the new user. If you are suggesting to have FF remember the password, that's not the problem. The problem is that CCleaner has damaged the registry because these sites CANNOT remember me. One odd thing I have found is that Facebook often thinks that I have around a dozen connections (which I can close) even though it never remembers me when I try to login.

I am pretty sure that the "remember me" box at site logins is different from the FireFox 'remember passwords' function. If you tell a website to remember you, they automatically log you in when they see the same user and IP address, whereas FF is pasting the password for you, regardless of whether or not you have the "remember me" box checked. In fact, FF was completely ineffective in getting me logged in here just now. It is supposedly remembering the password for this site, but I had to type it anyway. I don't get it! Here's what the Firefox help says: Note: Some websites offer to keep you logged in by clicking a check box on the site. This is a feature of the website and will work whether or not you have saved your username and password with Firefox.

Version 3.21.1767 Saved passwords box was NOT checked. Firefox remember passwords checkbox WAS off. I just turned it on. Maybe that was it. I never had to manually turn that on before. I upgraded FireFox shortly after doing the cleaning and the problem was happening before that. It has been happening on every site. I always check 'remember me' and it never does. I keep doing it in hopes that it will start working again if I do it enough times. Since I just changed the FF remember setting, I will try logging out of this site and then come back... let's see what happends.

I used a registry cleaner years ago and had this same problem develop. Before the cleaning, I could check that "remember me" box at various websites so I didn't have to login every single time, and now, after the cleaning, it doesn't matter, I always have to type my username and password even if I checked that box last time. When the problem occured before (and I don't remember which registry cleaner I used), it went away after a few weeks. I have cleared cache and double-checked the cookies options. I don't think anything has changed. CCleaner defintely seems to have caused this same situation. Any ideas? Maybe it's not a bug, but then what? I have WindowsXP and FireFox 14.0.1

I have a Windows XP system with several drives. The NTFS drive is 36GB, 36% free space. One FAT32 drive is 18GB, also 36% free space. Another FAT32 drive is 9GB, 25% free. Defraggler worked well on the NTFS drive. It took about 1/2 hour to completely eliminate all fragmented files. This was the quick defrag. The time estimate was in the ballpark all the way and I could see the fragments reducing in the status window. I tried a bit later, doing a full defrag where it consolidates all the free space and (supposedly) defrags directories. This took around an hour, but the drive map looked VERY orderly when done, with all the free space in one big chunk. BUT... When I tried it on the smaller 18 GB FAT32 drive... whoa! BIG difference. Defraggler just seems to be lost. It is reading and moving files that are already defragged. The status about the number of fragments does not change. The time estimate is in hours and changes radically as things progress. That is, actual times changes by minutes, estimate changes by HOURS. The drive was only at 3% fragmentation when I started, but after two hours it was up to 6%. Then, since the free space was still a mess with small blocks of files scattered throughout, I tried to defrag the free space. This did nothing positive. The free space was NOT consolidated and the file fragmentation went up to 10%! I have tried both quick and full defrag on both these drives, but the FAT32 only seems to be a waste of time. The second time I tried it, it took about 1.5 hours and the defragmentation went from 3% to 2%, with no free space consolidation. I have a third disk: it is FAT32, 9GB, 25% free space. When I started a quick defrag, it had 13% fragmentation and when Defraggler was done (about 3 minutes) the fragmentation was 11%. Again, Defraggler just seems LOST on FAT32 drives. So I can see a big difference in how it acts on NTFS and FAT32 file systems. There probably aren't too many people out there who have both file systems, so I guess I am "lucky" that way that I can compare Defraggler on them.