Using Saved Passwords
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mbwallace last edited by
How does one make use of saved passwords in Opera 27.0 ?
There is plenty of documentation on how to get passwords saved in the first place, but none that I can find on how to make use of them once they are saved and you want to go back to a site and log in.
There used to be a "key" icon, and if you wanted Opera to use a password that it had saved, all you had to do was click on the key. (If it had not saved a password for that site, the key icon - IIRC - was greyed out.)
TIA for any ideas,
Mark
Mac OS X 10.10.2
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A Former User last edited by
The password fields with either be filled in automatically, or you may have to enter the first character of the username/email address. The rest of the username and the password will then be filled in automatically.
See also managing passwords.
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A Former User last edited by
The form on Live.com expressly turns off auto-complete. Complain to Microsoft for making a shitty website.
You can overwrite this behavior in Opera (not standards-compliant!) by enabling opera://flags/#enable-autofill-ignore-autocomplete-off
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bbildman last edited by
aeyoun, that worked.
So, tell me why does a web site do this...for security reasons??
Another question, I also use Opera 12.17, is there also a flag in that Opera that does the same thing as this one?? And the Etrade web site works perfectly for password entry in 12.17
Thanks again
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A Former User last edited by
So, tell me why does a web site do this...for security reasons??
The feature is there for institutions like banks to disable password saving.
In this case, however, I suspect the following: In Internet Explorer on Windows, there is a special plug-in in the browser that handles login. I guess Microsoft thought this was the easiest way ti disable the password manager in Internet Explorer and leave the job to their plug-in. The other browser’s password managers are just collateral damage.
