Passwords not saving in safari

It wasn't working for me until I went to Safari/Preferences and the Autofill Tab. The user names and passwords options was not checked. Once this was selected, I went back to various websites and started entering my user name/password. Safari started asking if I would like to save the passwords for the sites. I have since gone back and tested this out ...checking and unchecking User names & passwords under the Autofill webforms section.

Worked for me!

I've had the same problem after Safari 6.0 was installed.
I've tried all possibilities mentioned here and on other sites (Autofill-enabling, Autofill-button, KeyChain repair, Store Username and Passwords... everything), but nothing worked.
Then I used the AutoComplete 1.0-extension, as RedGiminiPA, was the only thing that worked. I thought I had lost all passwords or so, but instantly after installing this extension, Safari 6 behaved as Safara 5 was doing, auto-filling in all details.
Thanks RedGeminiPA

RedGeminiPA, thank you!!!! this is exactly what was happening. i had all these PWs saved in Safari, i confirmed they were there, but autofill no longer worked in v6. Now all is working again like it did in v5.

Having followed all listed advice, including the installation of the extension recommended by RedGeminiPA, I still have my passwords regularly not saved. It works just fine with Safari 5 and Chrome, but still no go for Safari. What's especially annoying is that it not only forces me to enter the password, but it asks me if I'd like to save the new password. Every time. So Safari not only doen't remember, but forces an extra keystroke. Every time. And since I have to log into my university's learning suite multiple times every day to update my students' attendance, it's a frequent frustration.

It seems that the answer, for me at least, is to switch to Chrome until the next Safari update and hope the problem gets fixed then.

Sounds like a corrupt keychain manager.

Launch Keychain Access

Select Passwords under Category on the left

Click Keychain Access beside the Apple at the top of the screen

Select Keychain First Aid

Enter your password, then Verify.

If any issues are found, they can be repaired.

1. You are amazingly fast. You are a support ninja. Well done RedGeminiPA.

2. Alas, while Keychain First Aid did find and repair one problem, the issue still persists.

I checked the source at the most frequently troublesome site, and it has "autocomplete=true" as an attribute. And still fails. Even daw.apple.com (this very site where we are now) doesn't save the password, and every time tells me that the password I have typed is different from what is saved.

Under preferences, when I check the "Show passwords" box and enter my computer password at the prompt, the passwords still show up as black dots.

In the big picture, this is a minor annoyance. Chrome is a valid alternative for now, and that's what I'm going to do. Sure, it isn't my first choice, but many folks seem to like it just fine.

Wow, thanks for the compliment! 😊

I think I remember seeing something about this one other time a while back.

Still, keep that little extension installed. Once we get this little bug squashed, you'll really appreciate that little extension.

Under Keychain First Aid (Preferences>First Aid tab), are these boxes checked?

Do you have more than one keychain?

I created a new keychain, named "redgeminipa" as seen above. That's the only one that shouldn't be there. If you have more than one keychain, right-click (control click) on the keychain you want to use, then select the make default option.

RedGeminiPA wrote:

If it's a new site that you haven't saved for before, manually add it into Keychain Access.

Thanks, I have a couple websites that the keychain doesn't ask to save the username/password but I never thought of manually adding them to the keychain to get the job done.

Perfect. This solved my problem. I was getting ready to try iPassword or LastPass and now that I know about the mechanism preventing autofill I wonder if I would have been any happier. The autocomplete.safariextz solved the problem straight away.

Perhaps someone can help me with this.

Having had the same problem (on both Chrome AND Safari), I found this thread. I tried the Keychain First Aid approach, but a "Verify" and "Repair" attempt yielded the following:

Repair started

Checking keychain configuration for Mark (user ID=501)

Home directory is /Users/Mark

Checked login keychain

User differs on ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain, should be 501, owner is 0

Permissions incorrect on ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain, should be -rw-r--r-T , they are -rw-rw-r-T

Owner not corrected on ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain, reason: The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied

Permissions not corrected on ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain, reason: The operation couldn’t be completed. Operation not permitted

My question is, HOW do I fix this? How do I change the information in ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain?

Thanks!

I am also sissapointed since I had to move to other browser

Safari has since been fixed, open the preferences and look for this pane: