Firefox does not remember Usernames and Passwords
I was having a serious problem with Mozilla Firefox (3.5) which does not remember user names or passwords that i enter in to websites even when i checked “Stay signed in” or “Keep me signed in” check box. So i have to enter the login data again and again on every visit to those websites if my browser restarted. Really annoying.
Today i found the fix for this problem. Now every thing works fine. The problem was really caused by the file that stores cookies in your Firefox profile folder has been corrupted. You need to fix this file as shown below.
1. Open your Firefox profile folder.
The best way to open the profile folder is by using an addon call MR Tech Toolkit
Simply install MR Tech Toolkit and restart your Firefox.
Goto Tool -> Edit my config -> Click Open Profile folder
Firefox Profile Folder
2. Rename cookies.sqlite to cookies.tmp
Inside profile folder, rename the file cookies.sqlite to cookies.tmp
Restart Firefox
That’s it! From now firefox should remember user names and passwords and keep you logged in to your favorite websites all the time.
January 15th, 2010 at 5:50 am
“Cannot Rename cookies: It is being used by another person or program.”
Now what?
January 15th, 2010 at 9:01 am
oh, this mean firefox is still running. open task manager -> goto process tab -> right click “fireofox.exe” and select “End Process tree”. Now you should be able to rename the cookie. in case this does not work, just intall “unlocker assistant” and it will unlock the file for editing after you got that error message. http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/