Unable to clear "Remember Me" passwords in FireFox

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Nov 2 20:14:26 UTC 2005


Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
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>>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Robin Laing
>>Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:51 AM
>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>>Subject: Re: Unable to clear "Remember Me" passwords in FireFox
>>
>>
>>Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>
>>>Gahd.
>>>
>>>I set the "Remember Me" password for swat in my FireFox
>>>Browser, and doing a Preference->Privacy->Saved Password
>>>CLEAR button doe not remove this setting!
>>>
>>>I deleted ~/.mozilla and that does not work either???
>>>
>>>Can someone direct me how to clear the password setting?
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>Dan
>>>
>>
>>Check for cookies used by swat.  I think you will find that this is 
>>where the password is saved.
>>
> 
> 
> Any idea where cookies are stored?  Via FireFox Preferences, I
> deleted all cookies but dunno if there are cookies saved elsewhere...
> 
> 
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> 

I am not sure in this case.

I would have assumed it was in the cookies.txt file.  I don't use 
FireFox as I prefer Mozilla and that is where they are stored.

I did find that I had to shutdown and reopen Mozilla for some cookie 
changes to take effect.

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