Yesterday saw the release of the latest version of Firefox, version 12.0. It just so happens that prior to upgrading this browser at home, I was looking into an issue that Firefox had with the audio element, where it would appear to jump about as it worked out the element’s height, when I noticed something odd.
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Since installing Firefox 3.6.3 I noticed that it kept clearing all login details and every time I started it up and went to a site, I had to re-enter my details which is tedious and annoying. Now I’m one who has Firefox set to clear certain things on close down, and had set these setting via Tools->Clear Recent History… and thought that these were the same settings that would be used when Firefox was closed.
How naïve.
The actual settings for this are found in Tools->Options->Privacy and if you have “Clear history when Firefox closes” checked, like I have, you must then click the “Settings” button. This brings up a different dialog box to the one mentioned above and by default everything has been checked. Uncheck “Cookies”, click “Ok” and all should now work as expected.
I’ve just gone over the site statistics provided by Google Analytics for both my home site (and this blog) iandevlin.com and for my HTML5 site HTML5 Laboratory for a persio of 3 months (from 20th February 2010 to 19th April 2010) and have come up with some interesting facts.