Wednesday 9 September 2009

Opera 10 and that damn new Password Manager!


Update: Solution doesn't work correctly!

So you've just upgraded to the new Opera 10 Web Browser and immediately hate the new interface....Mmmmm.....me too. But this is not a grumble blog ;-)

The main reason of this blog is a serious problem with the password manager, that used to be called the Wand. On some websites you need to enter a confirmation word or number to login. Usually you'd click the wand to populate the username and password, then enter the word manually.

However, with the New Opera 10, it executes the website username and password immediately using " " as a word in the confirmation box. 

Right, I've sorted this problem out. Here's the example. 


1. I cleared out the old wand password and site for http://thebox.bz and opened up the login page for thebox.bz.
2. I entered Username and Password to bring up "password manager" and saved.

(At this time the for sites like thebox, it still wont work because it executes " " as the word in the confirmation box!)

3. Close down the tabbed page and open a new page - http://thebox.bz
4. Now ENTER the confirmation word BEFORE....
5. ....clicking the wand and you should now login OK.

The last 2 steps are opposite to what I suspect me and others have been doing in the past.




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