Foxmarks keeps forgetting my password. Why?

this does not resolve the issue for me unfortunately. i have unchecked both options. only after i log into the website does it sync. i've also typed in my password and checked remember password.

I have been a fire fox user since 1.5 and was an early adopter of foxmarks. I have always had firefox set to not ask for/remember passowrds AND clear private data each time the session ends, never had this problem until two weeks ago. Love the product but will be forced to ax or at least disable it until this can be resolved. I cant deal with the popup every 45 seconds.

thanks. i am wondering if it may have to do with an extension i use called Sxipper for saving personal data and passwords. i will try disabling it and see what happens.

I'm having the same issue but I'm using 3.0.4

it seems to remember my password for longer if i toggle off the remember password box and type in my password at the pop-up. the next time it forgets, i toggle the box back on. and keep repeating this whenever it forgets. (it's weird that toggling off will make it remember...at least for a while.)

Cannot find - Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Private Data -> Settings

It seems that my login information is now holding without me having to re-enter it. I don't know how that finally happened but I'm just glad it is now holding.

With all these people having concerns about logging in, don't you think that you should eliminate logging in altogether? As I mentioned earlier, all that Foxmarks does is list my stored bookmarks in an orderly fashion (which is great)? If you're dealing with my checkbook (ie Quicken) yes, that has to be confidential and protected, but not a bunch of neatly listed public website.

Eric: I didn't realize that this program is both read and write capable. I'm not sure why the write capability, but now I understand the need for password protection. thanks

Hi. I came here at Eric's request to see if this thread pertained to my recent issue, and it DOES. Also, I believe I have FOUND the solution. I was getting the same annoying popup of the Firefox master password box every time Foxmarks synced. This can be stopped, so that it will only ask you once for the master password shortly after you open Firefox. So long as Firefox remains open, Foxmarks will sync automatically without bugging you, if you have that turned on, as I do. But understand that if you close and later re-open Firefox, it will ask one time again.

Go into the Foxmarks Settings and click Advanced. The first listing is Connection Security. Mine had defaulted to Login Only. And that is what causes this issue. That setting apparently tells Foxmarks that it can only sync if you log in EACH TIME it wants to sync.

Change that to Encrypt All. It appears to still use the passwords, so you are still secure, but it won't keep bugging you to log in.

Eric, if I am wrong about this still being secure, please let me know. But that is what it looked like to me.

I have not had any problems at all since I did that. You can always open the Foxmarks Settings / Account window and look at the time stamp on the last sync. Mine are showing that it does auto-sync while Firefox is running. So I think the issue is solved for me.

Cheers!

Zoandar

Well, although I am not privy to how the program was written, this is how I reasoned it 'might' work:

"Log-in Only" pretty much means, "the only time you will be able to sync is by logging in" to my way of thinking. That is exactly what Foxmarks was doing - making you log in each time it wanted to sync .

So I looked at the remaining choices, and decided that Encrypt All might just mean "still encrypted, but it won't ask you to long in "every" time" like the word "only" implied. And in fact, that is precisely what it now does. As long as Firefox (thus, Foxmarks) is continually running, you only need to log into Foxmarks once. It typically asks within 30 seconds or so of opening Firefox. If you do close Firefox, then when you re-open it again later, Foxmarks will ask again for the log-in one time.

Since I use the password feature in Firefox, I will eventually have to enter my master password anyway, if I go to a site that needs a log-in. So I don't mind entering that the single time, and it has the bonus of getting that step accomplished "up front". The only tiny complaint I would have is that when it does happen, it pops up over top of whatever else I happen to be typing at the time. A slight annoyance at the most.

Cheers!

My password don ́t save...

The Marks's don ́t save, I click in your botton (OK) and nothing.....

Longtime FoxMarks user here......annoyed with it not saving my passwords. It always did until a few months ago.

I always cleared my private data, have encrypt all set, checked remember password, but still every session, I am asked to enter my password.

I guess I will dump XMarks...it's just too annoying now to be convenient.