MinuteElectron wrote:
Simon Orr wrote:
I was under the impression that FF and other browsers remembered passwords based on the URL and field names (please correct me if I'm
This could be a MediaWiki installation not using short URLs, in which case Special:UserLogin and Special:Preferences would both be under the path - index.php - so the browser might treat them as the same page.
I admit I hadn't considered that, however, the login page uses <input name="wpPassword"> whereas the preferences page uses <input name="wpOldpass"> (at least on my install) so I'm surprised it's confusing the two unless it's been specifically told to remember the old password when a password was changed - in fact it would be interesting to know if it's populating the correct "old" password or is in fact using a very old one.
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