Posted on 02/14/2013 2:17:43 PM PST by Chad N. Freud
This is my first thread. I'm only posting it to see if any other FReeper had the same experience today, yesterday, or maybe tomorrow.
Today, all three of the websites I routinely log into that require a password (including FR) returned an error message, saying that I needed to re-enter the password because it was incorrect.
Now, one website I could put down to typing error. Two, maybe bad typing still. Three, seems suspicious to me. These are websites I log into every day. On all three I happened to mis-type the password in one day out of thousands? I'm suspicious.
Well, maybe it's possible, but if it happens to anyone else, keep it in mind. And let me know. Thanks.
no, but I saved a boatload of money on my hotel room last night
“Did you clear your browser cache....that will usually remove cookies, and you will have to login the next time you visit any site.”
Very logical.
Please note, though, that I am not talking about having to enter my password once. I’m suspicious about having to enter it twice. Three websites said the first time didn’t take, or wasn’t entered correctly. OK. Maybe human error. But three times on one day. Three different websites. No other typos occurring: sernames, websites — everything else entering fine. Only passwords need to be re-entered.
I’ll live with it, since there’s nothing I can do about it. But it’s weird, to me.
I did not clean my registry, or delete a cache on purpose, unless the Windows update did that.
I like “W’s fault” as the most plausible answer.
But, gee, I seem to have attracted some harshness from steerpike100!
“And calling another FReeper silly could be interpreted as accusing him of being gay.”
I fail to see the connection. Wouldn’t using the word “silly” make me look more gay than the person I was talking to? I will watch it, if it is explained to me.
And I’ll stipulate:
If no one else has this same experience, forget the whole thing. Occam’s Razor will say it was just me.
It’s possible that a number of cookies were deleted, or maybe even all of them, which would account for having to re-enter the passwords.
I delete my cookies from time to time—in fact about once a week—but I make an exception for websites that I use frequently and where I have entered passwords. Otherwise, you have to enter them all over again after each deletion. I clean out my cookies mainly to remove the ones from sites I just happened to visit once or twice. For instance, you get cookies from news sites if you visit them from FR to read the complete story, and that can add up to hundreds of cookies if you don’t clean them out from time to time.
RLOL!!!!
The evolution of the word "gay" is a fascinating thing. A few centuries ago, it meant "silly". Then it meant "happy and carefree". Then it meant "homosexual". Today's young have changed it to mean "lame" or "weak".
So I don't know if calling someone "silly" is a gay attempt at sounding gay but if it is said by a gay person I suppose they wouldn't feel gay about the overtones of your choice of words.
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Check your keyboard for sticking keys or if it’s wireless change the battery.
where has all the silliness gone? Obammy’s fault!
29 responses and no one tried the old “freepmail me the details so I can have my Nigerian friends who are bankers, royalty and computer wizards fix it for you. They will need info for a normally secure site, like bank or investment account to do a proper test...”?
where has all the silliness gone? Obammy’s fault!
If it happened today, it’s because Dorner. If it had happened earlier, because Sandy Hook.
I think 1rudeboy may be on the right wavelength.
“I don’t know if calling someone “silly” is a gay attempt at sounding gay but if it is said by a gay person I suppose they wouldn’t feel gay about the overtones of your choice of words” makes my head spin.
Thank you.
Well, silly FR folks (if that won’t be interpreted wrong), my vanity inquiry has fizzed. If any of you find yourself having to enter a password twice — twice, not once — on a site which you visit every day, and presumably know the correct password to, please remember that the same thing happened to me. If not, please disregard.
Mine were all XP-related updates. Rebooted after installing and did not have any issues.
But I use only FireFox and had to log in to everything last fall. Tried everything to avoid re-entering passwords, even here on FR. Finally I started a new profile that didn't have that problem when I came across the very simple solution.
Firefox: Tools>>Options>>Privacy>>History
Check: "Accept cookies from sites"
On the line with "Keep until:," Select in menu: "they expire"
I had selected the menu "I close FireFox" which deleted them. No further problems after that.
Thanks. A real response. I don’t use FireFox, but I am becoming interested in it after reading so many threads on how it does not fall victim to these kinds of things.
I haven’t had the same problem since I rebooted, either, but I’m using Windows. Beginning to wish I had FireFox.
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