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Safari 6 does not fill username and password fields

Since my update to ML 10.8 and Safari 6.0, all my websites with stored passwords don't get their username / password fields populated.


My settings seem to be correct, with the checkbox checked in Preferences to fill the password fields automatically, and I see my usernames / passwords in the Password tab for the websites.


I also reinitialized Safari, except for clearing out the passwords (because I want to keep them, of course), but still no success


Any idea what's going on in Safari 6?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 30, 2012 6:47 AM

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Aug 17, 2012 9:38 AM in response to °Bernz°

Also experiencing this problem with Safari. Not all websites, just a few that used to work before my upgrade. Only change was to ML and Safari 6.


I have run disk first aid to verify and repair permissions (no safari or keychain errors, just printer related errors), run keychain's verification (no errors), deleted safari and keychain's plist from /Library/Preferences and restarted.


The login and password are in my Keychain, but are also in Safari's Preferences / Passwords tab. Tried removing them and making new ones (in both)... no such change. *edit* just realized that deleting them from Safari deletes from keychain... and vice versa.

Aug 27, 2012 9:55 PM in response to MacNewbees

Actually, I don't think this is a safari issue. I have he same problem with the same websites in chrome and firefox. Which leads me to think the problem is solely in keychain. Not a big enough deal to get me to roll back since it is only three websites. Just annoying at my level. But for others effecting lots of sites it would be worth considering the roll back

Aug 28, 2012 1:30 PM in response to °Bernz°

It seems to be something with the security of sites as, I tried a fresh install of 10.8 and some sites that used show the username and password don't work anymore but some do like apple & facebook popup and ask if I want to save the username and password. What was strange sites that don't work don't have the remember me option and one of them saves the username but not the password which should have been this way in the first place as, this is a financial place and the password shouldn't be allowed to be populated.


So from what I can tell is that 10.8 has some updated security in the browser portion as, I was on the phone with apple level 2 support for over 2 hrs and we tried everything to get the other sites that used to work to work again.


The only option is to do a roll back of 10.7.4 and not via time machine as this doesn't work as you are just bring time machine 10.7.4 to 10.8.



Hope this helps.

Safari 6 does not fill username and password fields

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