last seen 9 weeks 23 hours agoSo being on Gaia for a while now and getting to use all the features and such, I came across an annoyance when using Firefox in auctions. Maybe someone knows of a add-on or settings I can change to make it less annoying. I'll do my best to 'splain the issue.
I see an auction listing for something I want. It's a bid-only auction (irrelevant to the issue, although it's when I'm bidding, not buying. Firefox stores passwords just fine when buying). Say I put in a bid of oh - 6g - I'm bidding on bugs. When I enter the password to confirm the bid, the pop up box asks me if I want it to remember, never for this site, or not now. If I click for it to remember, when I go into Options - manage passwords, it stores every entered number I've asked it to remember. This gets a little out of hand when you're bidding on everything from bugs to sealed envelopes and lotsa items in between. And I still get the pop up box asking me what I want to do, even when the password is auto-filled.
When I hit "not now", it will simply keep asking me whenever I bid on anything. When I hit "never for this site", well, bye bye any chance of sniping an auction since it never stores it then.
I don't mind entering the password (I keep it in the clipboard when I am doing a lot of buying and going between accounts, one on Firefox, one on IE, same password) when I bid, although it would be cool for it to always be entered for me in bidding as it is when listing items or outright buying.
I've tried one password managing Firefox add on, too, Sxipper, but that just slows me down even more. I haven't tried the tektek or Gaia toolbars - would they help this issue?
Any thoughts? Advice other than to get a life?
I'm not having the problem you guys are with the password. But, I should say that my password is the same on all my Gaia accounts. I went through and changed each one and told Firefox to 'remember' each password as I put it in and now I have no problems in auctions, trading, gifting, etc. and I am bidding all different kinds of numbers. Strange.
And I checked my passwords under options and I noticed I too, have a ton of numbers there, just like you do.
If I was standing on a fish, I'd slip and fall......
Well, I guess this explains why I have to enter my PW for every bid except for if I'm bidding 12g?
"How do you know I'm mad?" asked Alice.
"You must be", said the cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here"
Same things happens to me too. Yet when I bid on another auction from the same user the password will be there. But when I move back to the main auction page and do another bid, the password won't be there. Hmmm....glad to see that I'm not the only that this keeps having this problem.
Some people are like slinkies. Not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs.
Six large ones for a bug....hmmm
In firefox:
Tools-Options-Security-check and set Use a master password
That should do it, if I'm understanding this question right. You enter it in once and off you go.
I would also be careful of password managing toolbars. I'm not saying they are all bad but one of the most prolific adware of all time was known as Gator (anybody remember that one - really hit the market by storm about three years ago) advertised itself as a password manager. What a laugh...
Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free
I tried that one, Ashton.
Not to question your expertise (and I wouldn't in a gazllion years, I'm probably doing it wrong), but my experience was that master password was for accessing the "show passwords" options under the same tab. It asked me to enter it only when I needed to get in there, and it wasn't affecting any actual browsing.
For the Gaia URL, it saves the password depending on the amount bid. So I have dozens of entries there for gaiaonline.com. The first, top entry has my username, then below it is every amount I've ever bid on anything (when I asked for it the password to be remembered). Quite the list. It doesn't happen when you're buying in an auction, just bidding - since there's no amount to enter when you buy outright.
So Pink, I think it remembers by amount bid. The password corresponds to the number entered and not the seller.
And yes, I tried a couple add ons and toolbars (LMAO@Gator! Lordy was he one nasty bugger!), only used them to test Gaia and nothing else, hated them, uninstalled them. Argh.
Should prolly change the Gaia password now, just in case.
Sticky question - fo sure.
I looked around a little on the net and only found "Gaia Gold generators" that wanted your user password...
I'm guessing (I'm not a member of Gaia - I did talk the GF into loading second life and we are checking that one out) that you're running into this issue partly due to a constant change in the URL??
I'm really uncomfortable advocating any type of password manager, particuraly those that are script based, which is probably what you need...but take a look at this grease-monkey script.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8335
Other than that - I'm at a loss.
Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free
Thanks Ashton, I'm also a wee paranoid about password managers. I'll stick with the analog version (my brain and fingers with a little help from Firefox).
I'll just obsess less about the list of numbers under the various Gaia URL "username" fields in Firefox from now on. Naturally, remove the big ones, since I don't do the huge numbers much when it comes to bidding, but for my bug/ink sniping, (and yes, 6g for 12 cicadas! That's a deal!), I can stick with the digits most used and realize it's worth keeping them.
And yes, if I could set it to remember my PW for gaiaonline.com/marketplace, then my problems would be solved. 'Tis indeed due to the URL changes.
Reckon we may need a Second Life forum here soon. I tried installing, but my 5 year old puter doesn't have the drivers and graphics card cool, recent, state-of-art enough to install the program. Snobs.
>>>I tried installing, but my 5 year old puter doesn't have the drivers and graphics card cool, recent, state-of-art enough to install the program. Snobs
Yup, that would be me now. I just stuck in a ATI x1300 - not state of the art - but it's running my Battlefield 2 on high settings (I never knew there were flies in that game;-)
Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free
This has been recommended.
http://keepass.info/
Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free