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Why Safari 6.0 will not auto complete the password ?

Why Safari 6.0 will not auto complete the password ? even when the option is selected in autofill tab, and the user-password are listed in the password tab ?

It used to work fine before I upgraded to mountain lion.

Tks

MacBook Air (13-INCH, MID 2011), OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 30, 2012 6:55 PM

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Jul 31, 2012 1:17 PM in response to MAgg77

Same Problem to me. Very disappointing! BUT:

I have my doubt Safari is reading some extra HTML flags now (since 6.0) that blocks the password saving. In my case PayPal will not save my password anymore because PayPal is using the HTML tag autocomplete="off" on the password field. So basically Safari works correctly - just respecting the HTML tags. Hope this helps.

Aug 1, 2012 3:02 PM in response to MAgg77

This is not just a Mountain Lion issue...


I upgraded to Safari 6 last night but I'm still running Lion 10.7.4 and I have the same issue. Some sites the ID/PW are still saved and still populated and others are missing and I'm not even prompted to re-save them to the keychain.


This is extremely frustrating becasue the sites that won't popluate or save are the ones I used the most.

Aug 3, 2012 12:35 AM in response to MAgg77

Same problem for me since upgrading to ML. Safari remembers autofills for some passwords but not others. For example my web mail password was no longer auto filled. Checked in the keychain list and all the info was there. Therefore I deleted this and tried again - but Safari did not offer to remember the password. Than ran an old script I had that is designed to "Removed autocomplete=off from 0 forms and from 2 form elements, and removed onsubmit from 0 forms. After you type your password and submit the form, the browser will offer to remember your password." Safari then offered to remember the password. I accepted this and checked that the password was then saved in keychain - it was. However, next time I tried to access the email Safari once more did not auto complete. Very frustrating, especially as some auto completes do work. I hope apple sort this out soon.

Why Safari 6.0 will not auto complete the password ?

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