Firefox 3 will not save passwords

Please try it with a "clean" profile of Firefox.

1) Exit Firefox
2) Open your file manager and rename the hidden folder ~/.mozilla
3) Restart Firefox

Better? If yes copy the most importing files into your new profile.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox#Files_and_folders_in_the_profile

I fixed this problem by taking ownership of "prefs.js", which was incorrectly owned by root. I'm guessing an update unintentionally caused root to take ownership of this file.

Here's the command I typed in the terminal (don't include the dollar sign!):
$ sudo chown cgodley:cgodley ~/.mozilla/firefox/emk54e3f.default/prefs.js

When you use the command, replace terms I have indicated in [brackets]:
$ sudo chown [username]:[group] ~/.mozilla/firefox/[profile directory]/prefs.js

Besides ".dbus" I'm fairly certain that everything in your home folder (~) should be owned by you. To list files NOT owned by you in your home folder, use the following command:
$ find ~ ! -user [username]

For me the command would be:
$find ~ ! -user cgodley

You can then take ownership of the files using the "chown" command.

Hope this helps, please let me know if this fixes your problem :)

A similar problem was solved on the Ubuntu forums, you may find more information about your problem there:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869545

Dear Cgodley:

Thanks you so much, your answer worked, all's well.

Thomas Balderston
International Development Consultant
Phone: +1-202-470 3205

--- On Sat, 8/16/08, CgodLEY <email address hidden> wrote:

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Thank you very much with the help of this system it is solved. It just saved my password for launchpad, in fact