Join Early Retirement Today
Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Computer question..........
Old 10-17-2009, 05:04 PM   #1
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Dawg52's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Central MS/Orange Beach, AL
Posts: 9,067
Computer question..........

For some reason today, I have to log on to this site and any other site I frequent after I have exited out of Firefox.(red x) I have never had to do this except when I have manually cleared history. I check the remember me box when logging on to each site, but no site does today.

Any idea why this has started? I rebooted my pc just to see if something needed clearing out but I still have to log on to each site.
__________________
Retired 3/31/2007@52
Investing style: Full time wuss.
Dawg52 is offline   Reply With Quote
Join the #1 Early Retirement and Financial Independence Forum Today - It's Totally Free!

Are you planning to be financially independent as early as possible so you can live life on your own terms? Discuss successful investing strategies, asset allocation models, tax strategies and other related topics in our online forum community. Our members range from young folks just starting their journey to financial independence, military retirees and even multimillionaires. No matter where you fit in you'll find that Early-Retirement.org is a great community to join. Best of all it's totally FREE!

You are currently viewing our boards as a guest so you have limited access to our community. Please take the time to register and you will gain a lot of great new features including; the ability to participate in discussions, network with our members, see fewer ads, upload photographs, create a retirement blog, send private messages and so much, much more!

Old 10-17-2009, 05:13 PM   #2
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 4,764
Funny you mention an issue with Firefox today. DW and I had both our firefox block Microsoft Net framework today. Something about a vulnerability in the code. Doesn't help you but makes me wonder.
Notmuchlonger is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-17-2009, 05:16 PM   #3
Dryer sheet aficionado
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 46
Do you see your passwords and usernames listed in the Tools>options>Security>Saved Passwords list? Is the list empty? I had this problem and I had fixed it.....It was corrputed Firefox files. I will look at my notes if that is your problem also. It helps to know the exact version of FF you are using. Mine was a couple of builds ago.
Mike1968 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-17-2009, 05:30 PM   #4
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Dawg52's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Central MS/Orange Beach, AL
Posts: 9,067
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike1968 View Post
Do you see your passwords and usernames listed in the Tools>options>Security>Saved Passwords list? Is the list empty? I had this problem and I had fixed it.....It was corrputed Firefox files. I will look at my notes if that is your problem also. It helps to know the exact version of FF you are using. Mine was a couple of builds ago.
Yes they are all there. I'm using 3.5.3. I wonder if updating Firefox would help?
__________________
Retired 3/31/2007@52
Investing style: Full time wuss.
Dawg52 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-17-2009, 05:42 PM   #5
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
TromboneAl's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 12,880
Perhaps some security setting has been changed, or some other application is deciding it should block cookies?
__________________
Al
TromboneAl is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-17-2009, 05:57 PM   #6
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
RonBoyd's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Denver, Colorado
Posts: 6,256
Two things come to mind for me:

1. That you may have used a "clean-up" function -- Properties>Clean Up.

2. That you are running out of disk space and Windows is deleting the oldest Cookies, as you make new ones, to compensate. (Doesn't sound like a saved Password problem but you never know.)

(Recognize that I use IE and have no experience with Firefox so YMMV.)
__________________
"It's tough to make predictions, especially when it involves the future." ~Attributed to many
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." ~(perhaps by) Yogi Berra
"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."~ Lau tzu
RonBoyd is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-17-2009, 06:16 PM   #7
Moderator Emeritus
 
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 12,894
Quote:
Originally Posted by Notmuchlonger View Post
Funny you mention an issue with Firefox today. DW and I had both our firefox block Microsoft Net framework today. Something about a vulnerability in the code.
Same here.
FIREd is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-17-2009, 09:57 PM   #8
Administrator
Janet H's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 6,164
Quote:
Originally Posted by Notmuchlonger View Post
Funny you mention an issue with Firefox today. DW and I had both our firefox block Microsoft Net framework today. Something about a vulnerability in the code. Doesn't help you but makes me wonder.
Me too - so I hit google and low and behold....Security Fix - Mozilla Disables Microsoft's Insecure Firefox Add-on
__________________
E-R.org Custom Google Search | Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and taste good with ketchup.
Janet H is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-18-2009, 05:53 AM   #9
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Dawg52's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Central MS/Orange Beach, AL
Posts: 9,067
Well I downloaded the latest edition of FF, but that didn't do any good. I looked at the security settings but didn't see anything odd there. I guess I'm doomed to having to log on every site from now on using this computer. Kind of a pain in the a$$. Oh well, maybe the weather will get back to normal one day and I can play golf again leaving the laptop shut.
__________________
Retired 3/31/2007@52
Investing style: Full time wuss.
Dawg52 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-18-2009, 06:06 AM   #10
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
RonBoyd's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Denver, Colorado
Posts: 6,256
Since I don't know anything other than you are using Firefox, I still believe it is a Cookies problem so Let me google that for you

I briefly glanced at those results and it looks a little involved but it may give you direction.
__________________
"It's tough to make predictions, especially when it involves the future." ~Attributed to many
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." ~(perhaps by) Yogi Berra
"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."~ Lau tzu
RonBoyd is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-18-2009, 08:02 AM   #11
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Dawg52's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Central MS/Orange Beach, AL
Posts: 9,067
Quote:
Originally Posted by RonBoyd View Post
Since I don't know anything other than you are using Firefox, I still believe it is a Cookies problem so Let me google that for you

I briefly glanced at those results and it looks a little involved but it may give you direction.
Thanks. But looking at a couple of the tips, looks like my cookie settings are OK. But I'm not very computer savvy. I guess one thing I can do is not close my browser during the day, only at night. That way I only have to log on to all the sites once a day.

Dumb question, would a system restore help a situation like this? Last thing I want to do is compound my problem.
__________________
Retired 3/31/2007@52
Investing style: Full time wuss.
Dawg52 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-18-2009, 08:09 AM   #12
Dryer sheet aficionado
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 46
Dawg,

Please Clarify a little...When you initially bring up a webpage that has a username/password such as early-retirement.org, the usename and password fields are blank? If so, I have had this problem since who knows when. What I do, is as the page is loading, I click in the username field and FF will then fill in my username and passwords and All I have to do is click Login.
Mike1968 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-18-2009, 08:23 AM   #13
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
RonBoyd's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Denver, Colorado
Posts: 6,256
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg52 View Post
Dumb question, would a system restore help a situation like this? Last thing I want to do is compound my problem.
Not a dumb question at all. The "Sytem Restore" is actually a pretty safe function -- since it is reversible --and you have no need to fear using it. (Make backups first though ) The problem will probably be that ship has already sailed. Two things will be required:

1. That you know exactly when the problem occurred.
2. That you have set aside enough disk space to store "restore points" earlier than that time.

You could start System Restore and reset it to the earliest date/time and cross your fingers, however.

In any event, that would not tell you how the error occured in the first place. That is what you want to know so it doesn't happen again.

Now, my "dumb" question: I don't remember but is there a check box during the login process that says something like "Remember me on this computer"?
__________________
"It's tough to make predictions, especially when it involves the future." ~Attributed to many
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." ~(perhaps by) Yogi Berra
"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."~ Lau tzu
RonBoyd is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-18-2009, 08:38 AM   #14
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
TromboneAl's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 12,880
Life is too short to have to log in manually.

Can you run a copy of Internet Explorer and try that to rule out a Firefox issue?
__________________
Al
TromboneAl is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-18-2009, 08:39 AM   #15
Moderator Emeritus
Martha's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: minnesota
Posts: 13,228
You could post to Mozilla's support site. Here is a similar question: All history and cookies lost on Forefox startup
__________________
.


No more lawyer stuff, no more political stuff, so no more CYA

Martha is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-18-2009, 09:04 AM   #16
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Dawg52's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Central MS/Orange Beach, AL
Posts: 9,067
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike1968 View Post
Dawg,

Please Clarify a little...When you initially bring up a webpage that has a username/password such as early-retirement.org, the usename and password fields are blank? If so, I have had this problem since who knows when. What I do, is as the page is loading, I click in the username field and FF will then fill in my username and passwords and All I have to do is click Login.
this site does not remember my user name but does remember the password after I have entered the user name. Other sites do not remember the password either.

Quote:
Originally Posted by RonBoyd View Post
Not a dumb question at all. The "Sytem Restore" is actually a pretty safe function -- since it is reversible --and you have no need to fear using it. (Make backups first though ) The problem will probably be that ship has already sailed. Two things will be required:

1. That you know exactly when the problem occurred.
2. That you have set aside enough disk space to store "restore points" earlier than that time.

You could start System Restore and reset it to the earliest date/time and cross your fingers, however.

In any event, that would not tell you how the error occured in the first place. That is what you want to know so it doesn't happen again.

Now, my "dumb" question: I don't remember but is there a check box during the login process that says something like "Remember me on this computer"?
The problem happened yesterday at some point. Not sure what time.

Quote:
Originally Posted by TromboneAl View Post
Can you run a copy of Internet Explorer and try that to rule out a Firefox issue?
I just tried under IE and it does the same so must be something corrupt on my pc.

Maybe a system restore from a couple of days ago would be good, if I can figure out how to do that.
__________________
Retired 3/31/2007@52
Investing style: Full time wuss.
Dawg52 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-18-2009, 09:29 AM   #17
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
RonBoyd's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Denver, Colorado
Posts: 6,256
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg52 View Post
Maybe a system restore from a couple of days ago would be good, if I can figure out how to do that.
Again, I don't have enough data but in Windows Vista (It would be very simialr in Windows XP), you would:

Click "Start."
Click on "Control Panel"
Click on "Backup Your Computer"
Click on "Restore your computer using System Restore."
(Click on "Continue" if required.)
Click on "System Restore"
Click "Next."
Pick one of the available "Restore Points" and follow the instructions.
__________________
"It's tough to make predictions, especially when it involves the future." ~Attributed to many
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." ~(perhaps by) Yogi Berra
"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."~ Lau tzu
RonBoyd is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-18-2009, 06:53 PM   #18
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Dawg52's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Central MS/Orange Beach, AL
Posts: 9,067
Quote:
Originally Posted by RonBoyd View Post
Again, I don't have enough data but in Windows Vista (It would be very simialr in Windows XP), you would:

Click "Start."
Click on "Control Panel"
Click on "Backup Your Computer"
Click on "Restore your computer using System Restore."
(Click on "Continue" if required.)
Click on "System Restore"
Click "Next."
Pick one of the available "Restore Points" and follow the instructions.
I have XP. I restored to Friday, which was a good day, but the system acted very weird. I couldn't even log on to this site, the little hour glass just came up and wouldn't let me do anything. So I restored back to today. At least I can operate even though a little inconvenient. I will just leave my browser up during the day so I don't have to log on to every site through out the day.

Thanks for your help, I just don't know enough about this crap.
__________________
Retired 3/31/2007@52
Investing style: Full time wuss.
Dawg52 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-18-2009, 07:52 PM   #19
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
RonBoyd's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Denver, Colorado
Posts: 6,256
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg52 View Post
Thanks for your help, I just don't know enough about this crap.
Yeah, sounds like you need someone hands-on. Sorry.

When you did get it cured, let us know. I will add it to my knowledge pool.
__________________
"It's tough to make predictions, especially when it involves the future." ~Attributed to many
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." ~(perhaps by) Yogi Berra
"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."~ Lau tzu
RonBoyd is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 10-18-2009, 09:10 PM   #20
Full time employment: Posting here.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 512
There is a great little program that I have installed on many many computers and it works wonders.
CCleaner - Download
Click on the url filehippo.com and when you open that page click on the upper right of page that says download latest version Latest Version
CCleaner 2.24.1010
You will have to click the yellow bar at the top of your browser if you are using internet explorer and then click download file. You will see this
Thank you. Your download will start automatically.
If not then click here
! Do not download the fix errors in your registry ! It should start automatically, if not then click where it said (if not then click here) again, do not click anything but the cleaner program.
Once you get it downloaded and you start to install it then uncheck all the extras except create a shortcut on your desktop
You will then have the little red icon from ccleaner.
Now click on it and click RUN CLEANER

It will take a while to clean up the left over junk files. When it finishes then log back in to this site. Now open ccleaner again and this time click options, then cookies
and you will see two boxes, one will say cookies to delete and the other cookies to keep. Move anything relating to early-retirement.org to the box on the right (cookies to keep) using the small arrows. Exit that program and you should now be able to log back in here without typing the user name and password.
I have been working on computers for 10 years and this program is one of the best free ones on the net. old trig
oldtrig is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Computer question David1961 Other topics 5 08-26-2009 06:20 AM
Computer question? Orchidflower Other topics 15 04-21-2008 04:41 PM
COmputer question............ FinanceDude Other topics 23 11-26-2007 08:53 AM
Computer question Jay_Gatsby Other topics 8 12-14-2006 06:47 PM
Computer Question? Gonzo Other topics 3 06-13-2006 09:18 AM

» Quick Links

 
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 05:42 AM.
 
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.8 Beta 1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.