ie 7 and firlefox only allow 6 charactors on login screens

[~AlicGinnis~]

so... at yahoo mail login, or bankamerica, etc., 6 charactors go in fine,
and on the 7th it loads the page as if the username and password were
entered and then denies access to the site.. This is on a 6 year old HP
laptop running xp home. Everything else works. Only logins are acting
goofy. I cleaned it up with ccleaner, uninstalled firefox2, installed
firefox 3, ran avg 8 twice, ran avg 8 form safe mode, seached the net, and
came up with no solutions. anybody hear of this before?
TIA
al

 

[jaster]

so... at yahoo mail login, or bankamerica, etc., 6 charactors go in
fine, and on the 7th it loads the page as if the username and password
were entered and then denies access to the site.. This is on a 6 year
old HP laptop running xp home. Everything else works. Only logins are
acting goofy. I cleaned it up with ccleaner, uninstalled firefox2,
installed firefox 3, ran avg 8 twice, ran avg 8 form safe mode, seached
the net, and came up with no solutions. anybody hear of this before?
TIA
al

Never heard about it. Maybe you turned on auto-complete password option?

Also if you uninstall sometimes the user directory data stays intact.
Delete temporary internet files, internet cache, uninstall firefox,
search for firefox files, back them up and then delete those firefox
files, then re-install firefox.

 

[Dennis Bonnmann]

so... at yahoo mail login, or bankamerica, etc., 6 charactors go in fine,
and on the 7th it loads the page as if the username and password were
entered and then denies access to the site.. This is on a 6 year old HP
laptop running xp home. Everything else works. Only logins are acting
goofy. I cleaned it up with ccleaner, uninstalled firefox2, installed
firefox 3, ran avg 8 twice, ran avg 8 form safe mode, seached the net, and
came up with no solutions. anybody hear of this before?
TIA
al

I agree with jaster, I've never heard of that problem before.
You could try typing username and password into a text editor and fill out the form
via copy&paste. Of course that's an annoying solution, but it may be a workaround
until you found the cause of the problem.

Godd luck,
Dennis

 

[Dennis Bonnmann]

Try Internet Explorer

at least you will narrow down whether or not you have a global problem
or if it's with Firefox...

Have you read the title of the thread?
greetz,
Dennis