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Problem with Two User Accounts

Discussion in 'Firefox, Thunderbird & SeaMonkey' started by mccoady, 2007/08/17.

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    mccoady

    mccoady Inactive Thread Starter

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    I don't know where exactly this should be posted because I don't know for sure what the problem is I'm just guessing. I'm running XP Pro with two User accounts (my wife & myself) with Firefox as my browser as SBC Yahoo DSL (now called AT&T) as my ISP. Probably two months ago I started having the problem where my wife and I cannot both have a personal home page at the same time if this makes sense. My SBC Yahoo account is only under my name so when you bring up the Firefox browser with our At&T.my.yahoo.com Home Page it always says "Hi Mike ".

    Until a couple months or so under both our User Accounts we had no problem bringing up our Personal Home Page, now if I'm using my account and I bring up my Home Page and then switch to my wife's account and start Firefox she gets up a guest page. Now if she clicks on logout on the browser to logout of the DSL and then logs back in (using my account login, it's in my name) she will get up our personal Home Page, not guest. Go back to my account though and now I have the guest page and of course I can logout and log back in and I get it back but now she has guest page.

    I know this is confusing to explain but hopefully you can understand what I've said. It's seems this all started with one of the past Firefox updates I think along with Firefox not remembering login's at several sites I go to but that has seemed to go away. By the way my Home page works fine IE under both accounts.

    Is there some Firefox setting or Windows setting that will allow my Home Pages to work properly under both accounts?
     
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    Ramona

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    mccoady,

    Do you and your wife use different passwords for your individual accounts?

    Have your wife delete her password, in Options, then go to the ATT Home Page, and she will be prompted for the password. Enter the password again, and opt to have Firefox remember the Password. It could be that it is corrupt.

    Tools | Options | Security
    Scroll down to Passwords
    Click on: Show Passwords
     

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    mccoady

    mccoady Inactive Thread Starter

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    When I first set up our User Accounts I never created any passwords.
     
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    Ramona

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    mccoady,

    Is this the page you're talking about: http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/my_init?.intl=us&.partner=my&.from=i

    If so, note that there is a "Sign in" which requires an ID and a password. Perhaps you've forgotten, you've had the page so long.

    https://login.yahoo.com/config/logi...r=&.intl=us&.src=my&.done=http://my.yahoo.com

    Look here for a password:
    Tools | Options | Security
    Click on the "Show Passwords" Tab
    and again
    Click on the "Show Passwords" Tab

    Look for Yahoo.com or AT&T

    Ensure that you disable the "Show Passwords" when you've finished looking for these passwords.
     
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    mccoady

    mccoady Inactive Thread Starter

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    Yes Ramona you were right it's been such a long time since I first created my Yahoo accounts that there are actually three I did, mine, my wife's and my son's. Evidently I can't be signed in twice at the same time and in the past my wife's was signed in under her own name I had just forgotten. How simple but when you get older you forget such things.Thanks alot!
     
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    Ramona

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    mccoady,

    I thought perhaps that might be the problem, as I have experienced a "Senior Moment" a time or two myself! :D
     

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