For reasons irrelevant to this thread I changed two Gmail passwords. One worked OK, but for the other I had to type my new password every time, along with viewing a red “Your password was changed 32 hours ago” message. This was OK at first – typing in the new password helps me remember it – but I eventually longed for the “good old days” when the Chrome password manager would autofill the password for me.
This doesn’t seem difficult. Surely Chrome knows it’s at a password page that’s not in its Never list. I could even see that its password manager had the new password … but it wasn’t autofilling. I did get it to work (by Googling to find a Google site where Googlers console each other), but with a procedure so odd I thought I’d document it here, and see if any gurus have explanation to offer.
On the Gmail login page, right-click and Select View Page Info. Disable Javascript when the Page Info menu appears. That is the way to get the “Save this Password?” prompt to appear. After entering and saving the Password, remember to click Page Info and re-enable Javascript next time you log in.
It seems ironic that, as web services become “friendlier” and “friendlier”, gurus need to be consulted to accomplish simple things. :smack: