LJLogin

[littleyellowboxes]

Fair warning, folks:

The new Firefox update seems to have killed LJlogin dead, for good, this time. Even with the add-on bar extension, and the signatures required option disabled in about:config I'm getting nothing but a logo. No actual functionality, alas.

The creator is aware of the issue, but doesn't have a solution to the problem at this time.

But all hope is not lost! We still have LJ Juggler for Chrome, made by a Milliways player.

If anyone is aware of other alternatives, please do mention them.

Comments

[notapilot]

Yeah, I've had troubles with LJlogin and had to switch to LJ Juggler a few weeks ago.

I also didn't realize Juggler was made by a Milliways player! Mad props to them, whoever they are.

[hasthehighground]

I think Ana made it -- he plays (or played?) Babs?

[genarti]

Yep, Ana's doing! He doesn't really play these days, or at least I haven't seen him around the bar in ages, alas.

[bjornwilde]

Babs, as in Barbara Gordon? If so, that is delightfully meta and appropriate!

[hasthehighground]

Yep! :)

[yinyangwizard]

I use 1Password, a password manager with Chrome and Firefox extensions. It's for more than LJ logins, obviously.

It's not free but it's been so useful to me that it's worth every penny, and I highly recommend it.

[sdelmonte]

I use Dashlane, which works in a similar fashion and is actually good enough to be worth paying for. It also comes with some new computers now. (If only it were available on my Kindle.)

[sdelmonte]

Remember when Firefox was the good browser? And the one that didn't use a lot of memory?

[yinyangwizard]

It needs to be dynamited and rebuilt from the ground up at this point.

[chanter1944]

What in the world *happened* to Firefox, anyway? It was marvelous at the outset, but now half the time it won't load pages for me, just sits and spins and spins for no discernable reason, forcing me to switch to IE which is full of security flaws but normally loads pages in seconds. WTF? And yes, giant memory hog. Did some new developer(s) get hired on and start the browser down the road to tanksville, or was there a series of really dumb management-based implementations, or...?

Genuinely curious here. Haven't got a clue as to LJLogin, I'm afraid.

[yinyangwizard]

Firefox is simply showing its age. In the years since it first came on the scene we've learned a lot more about engineering and securing Web browsers.

Microsoft made the right call when it abandoned IE to release the new Edge browser - that was an example of dynamiting and rebuilding. Unfortunately Firefox needs to do that now.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

I've given up using Firefox-as-Firefox these days. I have Pale Moon instead- it's based on Firefox code- and Chromodo as my replacement for Chrome. Looking into a few other alternatives as well.

[yinyangwizard]

I have heard some not-so-good things about Chromodo, for example that it does not enforce the same-origin policy (which every other contemporary browser does). Although I might be misremembering the name of the browser.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

It's possible. I mean, there's Chromodo, Comodo Dragon, Comodo Ice Dragon, and Chromium all competing for the title of most painfully similar names (admittedly this is because the company is named Comodo and because the open-source browser baseline is Chromium), so it could be any of those.

[yinyangwizard]

Uh-oh. If it's Comodo then it is indeed the one I was thinking of. They have kind of a bad reputation (for example, see this article from PCWorld. I also found an article about Chromodo's same-origin policy issue.

I don't know about Pale Moon but I'd stay away from anything made by Comodo - they're extremely sketchy.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ugh, lovely. Thanks for the heads up.

[annalalaith]

God I wish. I was very disapointed when Firefox killed LJlogin. I have been using the builtin in functionality of windows to remember my password and screen names at the moment.

Not as nice as a click. *headdesks* They also made it so I have to use Chrome anyway to view lots of things because, "oooh Java and Flash bad"

[fry_sandhu]

I know nobody but me uses IE but it's 'File - New session' to have a different login in another window.

[cameoflage]

Firefox allows you to be logged into two Tumblrs at once by opening the second one in a private session, so this would probably also work for DW journals. Not as convenient, but better than logging out of your mun journal and into the pup journal manually.