How can I force Safari to Autofill?

Question

How can I force Safari to Autofill?

Tesco recently updated their website. On the old site, my email address and password were always 'remembered', but now only the email is. I have to type in the password manually which is no fun for a disabled person.

If I look in Keychain Access, I can see the (old?) website item, and can view the password too. How do I force Safari to do its 'Usernames and Passwords' trick (Autofill) which I've got set to ON? If Tesco won't 'remember' my password, then surely Safari can?

iMac Core i5 12GB RAM-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Aug 28, 2014 2:24 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Aug 28, 2014 2:52 PM in response to christopher rigby1

From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Autofill tab.

Select: User names and passwords

Now select the Passwords tab.

Select: AutoFill user names and passwords

If you still have problems loggin into the Tesco site ...

Open Keychain Access then select Passwords on the left.

Right or control click the Tesco keychain then click Delete.

Back to Safari. Go to the Tesco website. Enter the user name and password.

Click Yes when prompted to save that data to a new keychain.

Reply

Answer 2

Aug 28, 2014 3:04 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

No good I'm afraid Carolyn.

For one thing, Safari 5 doesn't have a separate passwords tab, so I just clicked Edit.. against Usernames and Passwords and it brought up the keychain list.

So I deleted the secure.tesco.com item like you said, closed Safari, and relaunched. I went back to Tesco, and the situation is unchanged - email but no password. As there is no longer a keychain item for it (Safari hasn't generated another one), then I can only conclude that Tesco themselves have generated the remembered email and refuse to store my password.

So my original question stands : as Tesco won't remember my password, how do I get Safari 5 to do it? Everything about Autofill is checked as it should be.

Reply

Answer 3

Aug 28, 2014 3:16 PM in response to christopher rigby1

Christopher ..

Are you aware that Apple no longer supports v10..6 Snow Leopard > Apple Kills Snow Leopard: OS X 10.6 No Longer Receives Security Update

Reply

Answer 4

Aug 29, 2014 2:35 AM in response to Carolyn Samit

Yes, I know that. I need Snow Leopard, and anyway I don't like iOSX.

Back to my question ... ?

(One thing I noticed was that on the new Tesco site, Safari never asked me "Would you like Safari to remember this password?" - or words to that effect - which it does on other sites).

I do have 1Password - which I rarely use : would that help me here instead of Safari? I'm not sure if 1Password does Autofill or not.

Reply

Answer 5

Aug 29, 2014 2:27 PM in response to christopher rigby1

Anyone?

Reply

Answer 6

Aug 29, 2014 2:27 PM in response to christopher rigby1

Anyone?

Reply

Answer 7

dana277

Level 1

18 points

Aug 29, 2014 2:43 PM in response to christopher rigby1

1password will autofill on most websites. Once in a while I will have to do a copy/paste. Could be I am using it wrong.

Reply

Answer 8

Sep 6, 2014 10:47 AM in response to dana277

dana277 wrote:

1password will autofill on most websites. Once in a while I will have to do a copy/paste. Could be I am using it wrong.

Theoretically 1Password should help me. After a lot of trouble I finally managed to get its extension button to show up in Safari 5, and I added Tesco's sign-in page to 1Password (v2.5.8 - I've had it for years but not used it). Unfortunately, it doesn't do anything on Tesco's sign-in page, and when I click the little key in the Safari toolbar, I just get a new tab saying

Reply

Answer 9

Sep 8, 2014 1:51 PM in response to dana277

Thanks Dana - I was using 1Password v2 and a downloaded Safari extension for 1Password v4, no wonder it didn't work! AgileBits have kindly supplied me with both 1Password v3 and the correct Safari extension for it. I've tested it out with Tesco.com and it works fine. 🙂

Reply