What trickery does Microsoft employ that makes it difficult or impossible to save your Live login credentials?
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Mar 15, 2026377 viewsConfidence Score0%
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On Microsoft's Live single sign on system they seem to employ some kind of trickery to prevent browsers from wanting to save passwords. (Or at the very least Firefox behaves as such). I have the Password Saver bookmarklet that manipulates autocomplete on forms/fields to not dissuade the browser fro…
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They're probably changing the field names in the HTML code each time someone visits the page. When Mozilla's, Opera's, or other browsers try to save the "password" type input field data, they also save the field name as defined in the "name" value o…
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