This stupid WOS forum...

[BrianTheTechieSnail]

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

[adm]

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.

[joysleep1]

I wish they disabled this thing. It is really annoying to be fair.

[Sicilian]

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.

[ccs]

Makes you wonder how the rest of us have ever coped.

[birdman]

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?

[urie]

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]

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.

[birdman]

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]

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.

[BrianTheTechieSnail]

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.

[birdman]

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.

[birdman]

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).

[urie]

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.

[BrianTheTechieSnail]

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.