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BrianTheTechieSnail
20-05-20, 01:14
This stupid forum just forced me to change my password but it isn't set up to allow my browser to remember the new password.
Stupid STUPID STUPID
This stupid forum just forced me to change my password but it isn't set up to allow my browser to remember the new password.
Stupid STUPID STUPID
You don't need to change it. Every 30 days you have to set a password but it can be the same one everytime.
After you set a new password (or continue using the old one) log out (top right hand coner of this web page) and then log back in again and your browser should remeber it again for 30 days. Where you login with the user name and password there is a little tick box that you have to select. I assume that the site generates a cookie. I don't have to use the browsers' "remember user name and passwword" facility to automatically have access for 30 days without having to enter the details everytime.
I wish they disabled this thing. It is really annoying to be fair.
Makes you wonder how the rest of us have ever coped. :)
I wish they disabled this thing. It is really annoying to be fair.
It's really annoying and time consuming deleting spammer posts too, this measure along with others helps keep it under control.
This stupid forum just forced me to change my password but it isn't set up to allow my browser to remember the new password.My browser (Firefox) has no problem remembering the password.
Perhaps the problem is in your choice of browser?
My browser (Firefox) has no problem remembering the password.
Perhaps the problem is in your choice of browser?
Exactly no problem here using firefox. perhaps he would be better if given choice to remain logged in to forum.
BrianTheTechieSnail
20-05-20, 23:32
Exactly no problem here using firefox. perhaps he would be better if given choice to remain logged in to forum.
I use Google Chrome.
I would love to switch to Firefox if it could sync my bookmarks with a browser on my Android phone what wasn't unfathomably weird like the Android version of Firefox is.
I would love to switch to Firefox if it could sync my bookmarks with a browser on my Android phone what wasn't unfathomably weird like the Android version of Firefox is.My Firefox bookmarks sync to Firefox on my Android 'phone.
I also don't find Firefox on Android "unfathomably weird". It just seems to have a mobile interface instead of a desktop one, which I can handle*.
*But I hate a mobile interface on the desktop. So I hate Windows Mail. Fortunately (for me) I use a Linux desktop.
BrianTheTechieSnail
21-05-20, 02:11
My Firefox bookmarks sync to Firefox on my Android 'phone.
I also don't find Firefox on Android "unfathomably weird". It just seems to have a mobile interface instead of a desktop one, which I can handle*.
*But I hate a mobile interface on the desktop. So I hate Windows Mail. Fortunately (for me) I use a Linux desktop.
I hate a mobile interface on desktop too. So I hate Windows 8 and I can't raise much enthusiasm for Windows 10 either.
Windows 7 I can live with, mostly, when it behaves itself.
Wish I had got to do more with Linux before I got old and learning new stuff became so much harder for me.
I can move my Chrome bookmarks to Firefox on desktop Windoze.
But when I sync to Firefox on Android they basically get scambled and some are not in their correct folders anymore.
Plus I just don't get how to work Firefox on Android, how to switch between windows, open new window, close a window etc. It doesn't make sense to me at all.
Plus I just don't get how to work Firefox on Android, how to switch between windows, open new window, close a window etc. It doesn't make sense to me at all.There's a square box near the top right. It will have a number in it (== number of open tabs).
Press it, and you go to a page of thumbnails of all tabs. You can delete or select one from there.
BrianTheTechieSnail
21-05-20, 17:54
You're right. It makes more sense than last time I tried.
I still has all my thousands of bookmarks in a flat unordered list though rather than sorted in folders like on the desktop.
BrianTheTechieSnail
21-05-20, 17:59
Okay the secret to getting Chome to remember is to log in from a mobile.
On mobile there is a much more normal log in page with username and password in big fields in the middle of the page and mobile Chrome understands and remembers them.
On desktop you always log in in by filling tiny boxes that are at the top or top left of a big complicated page and Chrome is dumb and can't tell what you're doing.
On desktop the page where you change you password is recognised but on that page the place of you username is taken by your email address and remembering email and password doesn't work when you need username and password to log in.
Modern computers are such as mess compared to what we had thirty years ago.
I don't use chrome on desktop but are you saying it is not like firefox where you goto tools then security saved passwords find the site you want and change username and password.
I need to do that some times on firefox some sites especially when just joined firefox will ask to save user name and password but it adds your email address as user name you need to edit it before saving or edit it later on.
Modern computers are such as mess compared to what we had thirty years ago.30 years ago there were no Web servers, so the concept of how to save passwords would have been a moot point.
I still has all my thousands of bookmarks in a flat unordered list though rather than sorted in folders like on the desktop.I have all of my folders.
Although I've just noticed that they are not in the same order as on my desktop. Which is a shame as I had a 6-year old, and long forgotten, ticket open about the desktop bookmark ordering not working over sync, but closed it last week as it now looked OK. Might need to track it down....
And it puts all sub-folders ahead of individual entries.
But it's certainly not flat.
Although I've just noticed that they are not in the same order as on my desktop. Which is a shame as I had a 6-year old, and long forgotten, ticket open about the desktop bookmark ordering not working over sync, but closed it last week as it now looked OK).Just done a sync now. Everything now sorts OK (although folders are always still ahead of individual items - I'll live with that).
BrianTheTechieSnail
30-05-20, 00:26
But back then software got finished.
We didn't have this constant stream of updates and bug fixes that brake nearly as much stuff as they fix.
I have tried Firefox again.
It's the Firefox bookmark import that wasn't working as I expected. I think I have all my Firefoxs on Windows and Android syncing in a sensible way now.
Of course there's still stuff Firefox handles wrongly, it's just different stuff from what Chrome handles wrongly so I'll be running them both for a while to see which wins my favor.
Now all I need is a way to properly and completely sync bookmarks between Chrome and Firefox.
But back then software got finished.
We didn't have this constant stream of updates and bug fixes that brake nearly as much stuff as they fix.What software were you using in 1990? That was still exactly the same in, say, 2000? (IIRC I did have an executable I built in 1995 that I was still running in ~2008, but I'd say that was unusual, and it was not on MS Windows...).
The reason there were no updates was that there was no way to get one to you apart from a 3.5" floppy through the post.
Of course there's still stuff Firefox handles wrongly, it's just different stuff from what Chrome handles wrongly so I'll be running them both for a while to see which wins my favor.And there are web pages that are very badly written, perhaps making incorrect assumptions that I'll be viewing a page in full-screen mode (I have a multi-tasking windowing system - why would I routinely run something in a "just me" mode).
Ha HA do it again today LOL
BrianTheTechieSnail
02-06-20, 22:15
Ha HA do it again today LOL
......Plonk
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